Dhaka –After his resignation as the Communication Minister over his suspected involvement in the bribe exchange conspiracy in the Padma bridge project, Syed Abul Hossain had no place in the fully fledged Central Working Committee that the Awami League announced on Wednesday.Four days into its national council, the ruling party announced the new committee with Abul Hossain failing to be neither in the Presidium Council nor Advisory Council.
Awami League General Secretary and LGRD Minister Syed Ashraful Islam declared the new committee at a press conference at party President Sheikh Hasina’s political office at Dhanmondi in the city.
Central Working Committee member Mohammad Nasim and Publicity Secretary Nuh-ul Alam Lenin were included in the Presidium while MK Alamgir, Rajiuddin Ahmed Raju and Yusuf Hossain Humayun were also excluded from the party’s highest policymaking body.
Alamgir and Raju have been sidelined to the least functional Advisory Council.
Two Presidium posts have been kept vacant. Previous Forest and Environment Affairs Secretary Hasan Mahmud has been made the Publicity and Publication Secretary, but no one was put in his previous post.
Syed Ashraf said that the three vacant posts would be filled in future.
Amir Hossain Amu, Tofail Ahmed, Suranjit Sengupta and Abdul Jalil retained their posts in the Advisory Council. They will be in the party’s Parliamentary Board along with Hasina.
Abul Hossain was the International Affairs Secretary in the previous Central Working Committee and held the post for over a decade. Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury has been made the International Affairs Secretary to replace her predecessor.
Four years into assuming the office, the Awami League government is yet to start the construction of the Padma bridge, the country’s largest-ever infrastructure development project, which was one of the electoral pledges of the party in the 2008 general election.
No major changes were done in rearranging the posts of the new Central Working Committee.
Simeen Hussain Rimi MP, daughter of the first Prime Minister Tajuddin Ahmed, has been made the Central Working Committee member.
Hasina was re-elected President for the seventh time while Syed Ashraful Islam retained his General Secretary post in the 19th national council of the ruling party on Dec 29.
The Councillors at the meeting held at the historic Suhrawardy Udyan gave the responsibility to Hasina and Ashraf to constitute the new Central Working Committee.
Later they formed the full committee which was announced on Wednesday.
(Source: bdnews24.com)
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