Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will kick off her party’s election campaign on Wednesday through visits to the shrines of saints Shahjalal and Shah Paran in Sylhet.
According to the party and PMO sources, PM Hasina will arrive here on Wednesday morning and then offer ziarat at Hazrat Shahjalal’s mazar followed by ziarat at Hazrat Shah Paran’s mazar.
In the afternoon, she is scheduled to hold a public rally at the Government Alia Madrasha ground in launching ruling Awami League party’s campaign for the January 7 polls to elect the country’s 12th parliament.
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Awami League Presidium Member Jahangir Kabir Nanak and other central leaders visited the rally venue on Tuesday noon. Sylhet City Corporation Mayor Anwaruzzaman Chowdhury and leaders of the district and metropolitan Awami League were also present.
To make the rally successful, a divisional representative meeting was held at a convention hall in Sylhet city in the presence of about a dozen central leaders including Presidium Member Jahangir Kabir Nanak and Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif on December 13. Awami League leaders of four districts of Sylhet division were present at the meeting.
At the meeting, all the Awami League candidates of 19 constituencies in the division contesting with the party’s election symbol, boat, were instructed to bring at least 10,000 people each in the rally.
Meanwhile, the leaders and activists of Awami League have become enthusiastic centering the arrival of the prime minister in Sylhet. Meetings and campaign rallies are going on at different parts of the city.
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Regarding PM Hasina's visit and public rally in Sylhet, Metropolitan Awami League Joint General Secretary Azadur Rahman Azad said Sheikh Hasina starts election campaign from the holy land Sylhet every time. This time is no exception.
