Gazi Mesbaul Hossain Shachchu is the Acting President[1][2] and Afzalur Rahman Babu the general secretary of the organization.

[4][5] It traces its origin to the Swechchhasebak Bahini founded in 1949 at the establishment of the Awami League by Zillur Rahman.

[6] In 2008, Pankaj Debnath, General Secretary of Bangladesh Awami Swechasebak League was sentenced to jail for corruption by a special anti-corruption court established in the MP hostel of the Jatiya Sangshad complex by the Caretaker Government during the 2006-2008 Bangladeshi political crisis.

[9] On 25 November 2013, Rabiul Islam, the General Secretary of Deyara Union unit of Awami Swecchasebak League was killed in clashes with Bangladesh Nationalist Party supporters after they called a strike.

[10] Swechasabak League organized an exhibition on Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, called "History Speaks Up", at the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum on 15 August 2012.