AL starts preparing election manifesto: PM

Staff Correspondent: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said her party Awami League (AL) has already started to prepare a manifesto for the next general election.

She also urged the party leaders and activists to be prepared for the election saying hard days are coming ahead of the polls in 2019.

The premier, also the president of the ruling Awami League, said this while addressing the party leaders at her Dhanmondi political office in the capital on Saturday afternoon.

“We will have to prepare ourselves as the national election is knocking at our doors,” Sheikh Hasina said.

Elaborating various achievements of her government, she stressed the need for a proper publicity of the achievement as vested quarters will misguide people through giving them wrong information.

About the manifestos announced before the 2008 and 2014 general elections, the Awami League chief claimed that almost all of the electoral pledges have already been fulfilled and in some cases, her party-led government has done more than the pledges.

She also said that a huge development would be done in the country if Awami League remains in power.

Claiming that BNP means killing, terrorism and cause of sufferings to the people, she said the party was born illegally and it did not do any welfare of people and development of the country.

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