AL looks to good governance to boost its popularity

With the aim of boosting its popularity following a five-year rule that left many incumbency factors, the Awami League (AL) is now looking to concentrate on bettering governance standards more than ever before, reports UNB.

Party insiders say that it was always the aim of the AL to establish good governance in the country at any cost and shrug off the reports on their "dwindling" popularity saying that this is a normal phenomenon of a party to have its approval rate falling after ruling the country for five years.

That is why the AL, the oldest political party of the country, has been engaging its efforts to establish good governance in the country to improve its approval rating before the next general election which, the party leaders say, is still five years away.

"A democratic political party would always want to establish good governance, and Awami League being the oldest party in the country is no different. As such it is engaging its efforts to satisfy the people at any cost, for which establishing good governance is one of the tools," AL presidium member Kazi Zafarullah told UNB over telephone.

After winning the 10th general election, he said, the new government that was formed saw a good number of ministers from the previous term (2009-13) axed. Kazi Zafarullah offers the plain reason of failure to perform their duties properly as the factor for these ministers losing their jobs.