AL leaders can be independent candidates if they want: Quader

BSS :
Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Monday said the party leaders can contest in the forthcoming 12th general elections as independent candidates if they want to do so.

“Many may have ill-efforts to make the polls questionable. For tactical reasons, the AL leaders have been given approval to become independent candidates,” he told a function at AL president’s Dhanmondi political office.

The programme was arranged to handover letters to the AL leaders, who got the party’s nomination to contest in the upcoming general election.

Quader said there is nothing unclear in the speech that AL Nomination Board chairman and AL President Sheikh Hasina gave to the AL candidates at Ganabhaban on Sunday.