Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also the Awami League president, will give strong directives today to a record number of 4,000 aspirants vying for party nomination for the December 30 national election.
The number of the aspirants is almost double that of the 2008 election, when around 2,700 people sought the party's nomination.
Breaking from tradition, instead of interviewing the over 4,000 prospective candidates in person, PM Hasina is likely to ask the hopefuls to extend full support to those candidates to be nominated by the party and she will stress that no rebel will be accepted, said party insiders.
They also said that the nomination seekers would go back to their respective constituencies with the PM's directives and start working for those nominated by the party.