Ctg City AL
Factions unite on National Mourning Day
Almost after three years of being divided, the two factions of Chittagong city unit of Awami League came together yesterday on National Mourning Day.
Activists of both factions were present at a meeting organised at Muslim Institution yesterday.
ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury, president of AL city unit, presided over the meeting which was addressed, among others, by Primary and Mass Education Minister Afsarul Ameen and AL lawmaker Nurul Islam BSc, who is the vice-president of AL city unit.
Both the minister and Nurul Islam have had a long-standing rivalry with Mohiuddin.
After a rift developed between Mohiuddin and Afsarul, the minister formed a separate faction with Nurul, who had been bitter towards the AL city unit president after the nomination in 2008 election, sources said.
Both factions have been organising programmes separately ever since, they added.
Professor Dr Anupam Sen, vice-chancellor of Premier University and member of advisory council of Bangladesh AL, yesterday at the meeting said Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman not only gifted the people of this country an independent state but also a constitution.
Afsarul Ameen said at a time when the politics of Bangladesh in on the right track, the anti-liberation forces are trying to derail it.
He said the BNP-Jamaat alliance aims not only to gain power but also to foil the ongoing war crimes trial.
Nurul Islam said convicted killers of Bangabandhu would not be spared.
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