Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina Wednesday launched her formal campaign seeking vote for Awami League to serve the country and people again.
“I seek help and doa from all and urge the countrymen to cast vote for the candidates who have been given nomination with ‘boat’ symbol across the country,” she told in her maiden election rally on Sheikh Lutfar Rahman Government Degree College ground here this afternoon.
Sheikh Hasina also urged the countrymen to give a befitting reply to those who joined hands with and gave nomination to the cohorts of the anti-liberation forces by “casting vote for boat”.
“You will have to give a befitting reply to the cohorts of those who carried out massacre in 1971 and were convicted for war crimes and those who are contesting polls with the arsonists,” she said.
Bangabandhu’s younger daughter Sheikh Rehana was present at the rally presided over by Kotalipara Upazila AL President Subhash Joydhar.
Awami League Presidium Member Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim, Advisory Council Member Kazi Akram Uddin Ahmed, Joint Secretaries Jahangir Kabir Nanak and
Abdur Rahman, Organizing Secretaries AFM Bahauddin Nasim and BM Mozammel Haque and central leaders Advocate Afzal Hussain, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, SM Kamal Hossain spoke at the rally, among others.
Besides, film actors Reaz and Ferdous and AL candidates from surrounding areas addressed the rally.-BSS
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