Politics

Joy to join AL council

Sajeeb Wazed Joy, the ICT adviser to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, will join the Awami League (AL) national council to be held on October 22-23, AL Joint General Secretary Mahbub-ul Alam Hanif said on Thursday.‘Joy will be joining the council for the first time,’ Hanif said adding that he would attend the council as a councilor of Rangpur district.Hanif was addressing a meeting of the office sub-committee for the 20th national council preparatory committee at the political office of the AL president at Dhanmondi in the capital city, according to a news agency.Party presidium member Obaidul Quader, who is the convenor of the office sub-committee, attended the meeting, presided over by AL organizing secretary Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury.