AL to jumpstart polls preparation after Hasina's return

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Awami League (AL) Tuesday asked the government to withdraw all the cases against its president and ex-PM Sheikh Hasina, as the party plans to jumpstart preparation for the parliamentary polls just after her return from the United States, reports UNB.
Awami League Acting General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam told reporters that as Hasina is now granted bail in the last case that stood in the way, the AL would try its best so that the court dismissed all the cases against her.
"Sheikh Hasina's bail is a good sign ahead of the election. From all documents, it has been proved that the cases filed against Hasina were false and manufactured. Now we hope, before her return, government will withdraw all cases," he said.
"In no time after Hasina returns home from abroad, we'll start preparing for the parliamentary polls," Ashraful Islam said.
He was talking to reporters when Swechhasebok League leaders, led by their acting general secretary Matiur Rahman Mati, came to meet AL Acting President Zillur Rahman at noon.
Awami League presidium members Amir Hossain Amu, Tofail Ahmed and Abdur Razzak, among others, addressed the meeting.
Syed Ashraful informed the journalists about the AL's current thinking and plan for contesting the upcoming national election. He said AL started contacting those people who were involved in electoral activities of the party in the last national election.
"We are looking for a place to open media centre during the parliamentary polls," he told the journalists, indicating that Awami League is all agog about going to the polls, the schedule for which is expected anytime.
Addressing the Swechhasebok League delegation, Zillur Rahman accused the government of hatching conspiracy to bring the BNP-Jamaat alliance in power again.