Concluding the two and a half month long view exchange meeting with the party's grassroots level leaders except those from Dhaka district, Sheikh Hasina yesterday called upon them to work in favour of the party nominees forgetting all previous enmity to ensure victory in the coming general elections scheduled for early 2007.

The AL chief arranged the view exchange meetings with leaders from the district, upazila, thana and municipality units to select candidates from hundreds of party leaders aspiring candidature for the next general elections scheduled for early 2007.

She will exchange views with the Dhaka district leaders soon, sources said.

The meetings also aimed at knowing about the local leaders' complaints and suggestions to strengthen the party activities to ensure victory in the next elections and getting clear scenarios on the prevailing political situation, the party's preparations for the elections as well as the ongoing anti-government movements.

Long-standing intra-party conflicts at the party's grassroots level and lack of coordination among the top local leaders might pave the way to another debacle for the AL in the forthcoming parliamentary elections if stern organisational actions are not taken immediately, grassroots leaders said in the meetings.

With the increase of nomination aspirants in most constituencies, trend to establish supremacy at the local level, lack of communication between the central and grassroots leaders and lack of political activities of the top post holders at the local levels have augmented the long-standing conflicts among the top local leaders, they told Hasina.

The grassroots leaders urged Hasina to take effective measurers to solve the internal problems and nominate candidates, who are popular, have mass contacts, and active in AL politics to ensure victory in the elections.

Warning the grass-roots leaders of organisational action against those who would go against the party decision, Hasina directed all the grassroots leaders to work together forgetting all feuds and differences in opinion.

She urged the grass-roots level leaders to initiate ground works for the next elections alongside the ongoing movement.

The AL president also instructed the grassroots level leaders about the strategies in the next elections that include forming vote protection committees and arrange training to resist vote stealing by the BNP-Jamaat men, sources said.

The AL high-ups supplied copies of a four-page questionnaire to all the presidents and general secretaries, conveners and joint conveners of the units of 72 organisational districts, upazilas, thanas and municipalities and the grassroots level leaders returned the questionnaire with answers to the AL chief.

The questionnaire included queries concerning AL party position at the local levels, names of the aspirants for nominations in the next elections, their popularity, party portfolios, position in anti-government movements and reasons for considering them fit for contesting the next polls from their constituencies.

The grassroots leaders also submitted lists of local BNP-Jamaat leaders who "looted people's wealth, occupied lands, politicised local administration, tortured opposition men and minorities, filed false cases against the party workers and leaders and used administration against the party in last four and a half years".