Hope of unity in Ctg AL
Top rival faction leaders of AL Chittagong city unit join a view exchange programme together
Rival faction leaders of Awami League (AL) Chittagong city unit yesterday shared the same stage, for the second time in the last four days, creating hope among the party men who want an end to the long existing factional rivalry in the unit.
Though there is still absence of any initiative either from the unit or from the central committee, party insiders regard such joint participation as a good gesture.
The port city unit of AL has long remained divided between two factions, one led by its President Mohiuddin Chowdhury and the other by its Vice-President and lawmaker Nurul Islam BSc.
Mass Education Minister Afsarul Amin, who was in good terms with Mohiuddin before, joined hands with Nurul two years back, leading the faction ever since.
Rival leaders of both factions including Mohiuddin, Nurul and Amin joined a reception ceremony accorded to AL lawmaker Akhtaruzzaman Chowdhury Babu on being made as the party's Presidium Member last Thursday.
The top leaders, except Mohiuddin and Amin, also participated a view-exchange meeting organised by Babu at a port city hotel yesterday, where they underscored the need for establishing unity in the unit.
They also urged Babu for taking initiatives in this regard as a senior party leader of the region.
“Babu has to save the Chittagong party,” Nurul said, emphasising on unity among the party leaders and activists to implement the government's development projects in Chittagong.
The grass-root level activists of the party don't support any rivalry, said another AL lawmaker MA Latif, who supports Mohiuddin's faction.
He urged Babu to arrange to sit the rival leaders with the party chief.
Admitting the existence of rivalry and grouping in the party's Chittagong city unit, Babu pledged to take initiatives in removing the distances and differences.
With similar hopes, the unit's junior leaders and activists, who were present at the programme, urged the central high command to address and solve the factional differences.
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