Hasina re-elected AL chief

Published December 28, 2002

DHAKA, Dec 27: Sheikh Hasina, 55, has been re-elected as the president of the Awami League for the next three years. One of her loyalist Abdul Jalil, has been elected as general secretary of the party. Both of them were elected unopposed.

The election took place at the fag end of the party’s triennial council session, held in the city’s Paltan Maidan, on Thursday.

Abdus Samad Azad, a presidium member of the party, proposed the candidature of Sheikh Hasina for the post of the president. Another member Abdur Razzak proposed the name of Abdul Jalil for the post of general secretary. Jalil was commerce minister in Sheikh Hasina’s government.

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