Ministers, AL leaders active on Facebook
Leaders publicising government
success and exchanging Eid greetings through social media
Abu Jakir
Ministers, leaders, workers and activists of the Awami League (AL) are very much active on Facebook, the social media, and are fond of publicising the Sheikh Hasina governments success stories as well as blowing their own trumpets through their respective Facebook pages almost everyday. Their Facebook activities have risen ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, one of the two most important Islamic celebrations. AL leaders are now busy exchanging Eid greetings with each other through the social media. Most of the senior leaders of the ruling AL, including Prime Minister Sheikh Hasinas son Sajeeb Wazed Joy, Parliament Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, road, transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader, AL joint general secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif, AL office secretary Dr Abdus Sobhan Golap and others have Facebook pages. Most of them are very active on the site.
Apart from the central leaders, the partys young leadershipespecially those who are assistant secretaries of the AL central sub-committeetoo are very active on Facebook. Whenever they attend any party programme, they take selfies, and post these on their respective Facebook pages within seconds.
Some leaders have been sending invitations to their friends to watch their talk shows through their respective Facebook pages. But in most of the cases, they have simply been highlighting the present governments developmental activities and lauding their beloved leader and AL president Sheikh Hasina for her astute leadership. They are also posting different slogans on their respective Facebook walls, such as: Go ahead, Bangabandhus daughter and herald of change, No one will be able to defeat AL if its leaders and workers remained united and so on. In many Facebook pages of AL leaders, there is this statement: Bangladesh will turn into a middle-income state by 2021 and a developed state by 2041 under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
When this correspondent visited the Facebook pages of most of the AL leaders and workers, he found that they did not forget to criticise leaders of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), including its chief Khaleda Zia, for their statements on different issues.
Sajeeb Wazed Joy, also the adviser for information and communication technology (ICT) to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, usually issues his statements on the countrys current political issuesand on other issues as wellthrough his Facebook page.
In a recent Facebook post, Wazed Joy alleged that leaders of the Islami Chhatra Shibir, the students wing of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, were involved in the recent secret killings and terrorist attacks across the country, especially on the religious minorities.
Among the ministers, Obaidul Quader is very active on Facebook. His Facebook page always remains updated with his recent political and ministerial activities. Whenever he makes any statement to the media, it is posted on his Facebook page within minutes. His Facebook page is adorned by pictures of his visits to road sites and a few videos related to the same issue.
The Facebook page of the AL joint general secretary, Mahbubul Alam Hanif, too, is adorned with his recent statements and videos, wherein it has been mentioned that BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia had a hand in the recent secret killings across the country.
The Awami League, of course, has its own Facebook page, where the recent developmental activities of the government are uploaded and highlighted within seconds.
