Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Obaidul Quader were reelected President and General Secretary respectively for the straight ninth time in the party’s 21st triennial national council on Saturday.

Even though the party inducted new faces, no-one of the 14 presidium members of the previous committee was dropped from the party’s highest decision-making body.

Nanak and Abdur Rahman were joint secretaries of the previous committee.

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud and AFM Bahauddin Nasim were made joint secretaries along with Mahbubul Alam Hanif and Dr Dipu Moni in the new committee.  

Hasan Mahmud was the publicity and publication secretary and Bahauddin Nasim was an organisation secretary in the previous committee.

Besides, members of the previous central committee SM Kamal Hossain and Mirza Azam were made organising secretaries along with Ahmed Hossain, BM Mozammel Haque and Abu Sayeed Al Mahmud Swapan.

Still, three posts of organising secretaries remain vacant.

Some 7,500 councillors of 79 organisational districts joined the session to elect the new AL leadership for the next three-year term.

The council session started at 10:25am with AL president Sheikh Hasina in the chair.

AL Presidium Members

Syeda SajedaChowdhury, Sheikh Fazlul KarimSelim, Begum Matia Chowdhury, Mohammad Nasim, Kazi ZafarUllah, Adv Sahara Khatun, Engr Mosharraf Hossain, Pijush Kanti Bhattacharya, Nurul Islam Nahid, Dr Muhammad Abdur Razzaque, Lt Col (Retd) Muhammad Faruq Khan, Ramesh Chandra Sen, Abdul Mannan Khan, Adv. Abdul Matin Khasru, Shajahan Khan, Jahangir Kabir Nanak and Abdur Rahman.

AL Joint General Secretaries

Mahbubul Alam Hanif, Dr Dipu Moni, Dr Hasan Mahmud and AFM Bahauddin Nasim.