Dhaka, Sept. 14 -- General Secretary Obaidul Quader announced the dates after a meeting of its Central Working Committee chaired by party chief Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the Ganabhaban on Saturday night.The Awami League holds its council every three years following its charter.Hasina was re-elected president of the party for the eighth consecutive term in the last council held on Oct 23 in 2016.Quader replaced Syed Ashraful Islam as general secretary at the time.

70 YEARS OF AWAMI LEAGUE

The Awami League was formed on Jun 23 in 1949 at Rose Garden in Old Dhaka's KM Das Lane. Among those instrumental in its formation were Moulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy and Shamsul Haq.

Throughout the 1950s, a young Sh...