Off the wire
• Guangzhou Evergrande win their sixth Chinese Super League title  • Italy helps Chinese museum preserve ancient tomb wall paintings  • Vice premier highlights food safety supervision  • Senior Chinese, U.S. officials discuss economic ties over phone  • Jordan, U.S. seals 787 mln USD grant agreements  • Jordan supports UN efforts to restore stability in Yemen  • Local golfer Li triumphs over Major champions at World Celebrity Pro-Am in China  • Jordan urges UN to reduce burden on Syrian refugees hosting countries  • 14 Egyptian police detained over 6 criminals' deadly jailbreak  • Iverson joins stars in hailing huge success of World Celebrity Pro-Am in China  
You are here: 　 Home

Roundup: Bangladesh ruling party elects leaders, eyes third national elections

Xinhua, October 23, 2016 Adjust font size:

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been re-elected her ruling Bangladesh Awami League or AL party president for the eighth consecutive time.

Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has been elected the new general secretary of the party.

Quader replaced Public Administration Minister Syed Ashraful Islam who has been made a new member of presidium, the party's highest policy-making body.

Hasina and Quader were elected at the two-day National Council in Dhaka.

Analysts say the key challenge for the new leadership would be bringing the party in power with people's mandate in the next general elections slated for 2019.

AL, which rose to power with a landslide election victory in early 2009 and won its second term in 2014, now eyes for the third consecutive victory to furnish its plans to turn Bangladesh into a middle income country by 2021, observers say.

This time AL is facing challenges from ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party, which boycotted the 2014 elections.

In her concluding remarks after her re-election on Sunday afternoon, Hasina again asked her party men to prepare for an upcoming general election.

Hasina also on Saturday asked her party men to go to the doorsteps of the people to highlight the party's agenda and stand by the people to win the next elections. Endit