The general secretary of the party, Obatadul Quader, has known that the Awami League's party symbol boat will not be in the upcoming upazila elections.
The general secretary of the party informed the reporters after the meeting of the central executive of the Awami League's central executive parliament was held at Ganabhaban, the official residence of the Prime Minister, on Monday evening.
Obatadul Quader said, whether we will give the candidacy of the party's symbol in the upazila elections or not... it has been discussed. Working The committee is almost unanimous that our party symbol boat will not be used in this year's upazila elections. The committee meeting has now presented its opinion, our president Sheikh Hasina said, she does not disagree with everyone's opinion.
He said that since everyone has expressed the same opinion here. The local government will give the final decision to the nomination board. For now, it is working. The decision of the committee is decided by the working committee, the nomination board upheld the decision, which is the formality of the nomination board, and I do not want to say anything more about the matter before that ceremony.
The Aomi League president also said that the conflict between independent and party candidates is the discord between the leaders and activists in the twelfth national parliament election. Some of the gestures have been left in the country, which has been called by the eight departmental committees of our party to remove it, and it has been called to Dhaka to solve it.
Regarding the nomination of reserved women's seats, Obaidul Quader said that after the announcement of the schedule, a decision will be taken in this regard in the meeting of the party's parliamentary nomination board.
This was the first executive meeting of the party after the formation of the Awami League government under the leadership of Sheikh Hasina for the fourth time in a row in the last seven January.
The local government amended the Act to introduce the election system through the Dalit symbol in 2015. Since then, the Union, Upazila Parishad, Purbasabha and City Corporation elections are being held under the Dalita symbol.
But there has been a discord among the leaders and activists of the Aomi League to elect the local representatives, and 1,428 violence incidents have occurred in 2021 and 2022, in which 17,281 people were injured and 274 lost their lives.
Election Commissioner Anichur Rahman said on Monday that the polling will be held after Eid after the announcement of the schedule of the upazila elections.
Anichur said the first phase of the upazila parishad elections will be held by April 30. The rest will be held in May, because of the HSC exam in June.
