Ruling Awami League has started looking at itself in the mirror following the sheer failure of its field-level units in controlling the absolute mayhem, in which several offices of the party were badly vandalised.
Many of the leaders of the several units kept them safe instead of facing the turbulent situation during the anti-quota movement in which at least 200 people, including students, were killed and several thousands injured badly.
Miscreants in their acts of mayhem vandalised public and private property in many of the districts, including Dhaka.
Raising voices against the failure, grassroots have already demanded for dissolution of committees which have failed to tackle the situation.
Amid deterioration of the situation, the government was compelled to impose curfew and deployed army to quell the turmoil.
The failure of the party leaders and activists were discussed thoroughly during a series of meetings of the AL, which has been in office over a decade and half.
Blaming the lack of coordination among the leaders and activists, an organising secretary said they had failed to tackle the situation.
“We have failed due to a lack of coordination among ourselves during the recent mayhem,” AL organising secretary Mirza Azam, in charge of Dhaka division, told the Bangladesh Post.
“We are trying to identify our faults and loopholes. We will take a move to reorganise the party to face any political crisis in the future,” he said.
Many activists of the Dhaka city raised brows for the sheer failure of the leaders who failed to protect the political office of AL president Sheikh Hasina.
Miscreants attacked the office at Dhanmondi where two activists of the ruling party were bullet-hit.
The AL office in Rangpur was also vandalised during the protest while leaders of the Rangpur remained in safe place instead of protecting the office.
While visiting Rangpur, home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Thursday said that many of the AL leaders did not turn around during the vandalism of the party office.
As part of the move of rejuvenating the party activities, the AL on Tuesday dissolved several dozens of units under three thanas—-Mohammadpur, Adabar and Sher-e-Bangla Nagar.
Besides, the AL held series of meetings with the leaders of the two city units of Dhaka.
During a meeting on Thursday, Juba League general secretary Mainul Hossain Khan Nikhil and Dhaka north city unit general secretary SM Mannan Kochi locked in a brawl in presence of the AL general secretary Obaidul Quader.
AL Dhaka north unit president Sheikh Bazlur Rahman told the Bangladesh Post that they were dissolving the committees, which had failed to play their due roles during the mayhem unleashed by the BNP-Jamaat.
AL joint general secretary AFM Bahauddin Nasim stressed the need for reuniting the party by forgetting grievances for the sake of the party.
“We have to remain united instead of finding faults with others. Our top leadership will identify the faults and take measures accordingly to avert any mistake in the future,” he told the Bangladesh Post.
He urged the government to identify the BNP-Jamaat cadres who used gun power in destroying important buildings.
AL presidium member Mostafa Jalal Mahiuddin told the Bangladesh Post that they are running discussions in the party to rejuvenate the party activities.
“Discussions are continuing on the current political situation. But, what will be our steps, are yet to be finalised,” he said.
