Awami League (AL) will select party leaders on the basis of their performance in the next party conference, said Road Transport and Bridges Minister and AL General Secretary Obaidul Quader.

He said that the transparency of the party workers will be given the highest importance in the conference, while addressing at a press conference on contemporary political issues at

the ministry’s conference room at the Secretariat yesterday.

“We will not make those people party leaders against whom people have allegations and are involved in ill-activities and extortion. Our goal is to hold a grassroots level conference,” he said.

Regarding the ongoing drive against corruption, the minister said it will be strengthened further to curb the ill-activity of corrupt persons, extortionists and casino operators.

“Wait for a while… you will get the breaking news as the ongoing drive against extortionists, casino operators and corruption will be intensified further,”

Regarding BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia’s bail, the minister said “A member of BNP came to me… he told me that she (Begum Zia) would go abroad if she is given bail.”