of the party, specifically during the movement centring the January 5 polls, were deprived of deserving posts in the fresh committee. The new committee also frustrated grass-roots male and female leaders, thus making them unhappy with the party’s high command, including chairperson Khaleda Zia and senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman. The new committee was announced on Tuesday night with Rajib Ahsan as its president and Akramul Hasan as general secretary. Mamunur Rashid Mamun has been made senior vice-president and Ishaq Sarkar organising secretary. The committee includes 33 vice-presidents and 35 joint secretaries. Khaleda approved the 201-member partial committee of Chhatra Dal, dissolving the earlier one. Talking to reporters at BNP’s Nayapaltan headquarters, JCD President Rajib Ahsan said, “The new committee will play an active role in realising students’ rights and voting rights as well.” “We’ll restore all fundamental rights of the people, including student community, through waging a movement at educational institutions. We’re ready for making the highest sacrifice to restore democracy.” Claiming that the BNP supremo and her son Tarique have prioritised youths in the new JCD committee, the student leader said they will form all unit committees of Chhatra Dal, including Dhaka University, immediately. On studentship of new office-bearers, JCD vice-president Nazmul Hassan said, “Many leaders of the committee have studentship at different educational institutions. It’s not mandatory that central JCD leaders must be regular students. Experience and courage measure high to select central leaders.” JCD sources said Khaleda held several meetings with student leaders at her Gulshan office on how to revamp the organisation following its ‘poor’ performance in the recent anti-government movement. She received reports on JCD leaders from various sources before making the new committee. The reports were based on different grounds, including performance in the movement, family background and studentship. Tarique Rahman also made a list of the new committee of Chhatra Dal and handed over it to her mother during her visit to Saudi Arabia, sources added. “We hope the new committee would be formed with real students, dedicated and active on the streets of movement. Khaleda Zia’s meeting with JCD leaders made us hopeful, but finally we are upset as the new committee did not follow the JCD constitution appropriately,” said a top JCD leader seeking anonymity. “The committee is formed with inactive, non-student and married persons. This is very unfortunate,” he told daily sun. “The new committee again has proved that performance doesn’t matter to get a good post but lobbying and money are important to get desired posts in Chhatra Dal. We doubt whether the new committee can wage any effective movement to realise the demand for polls under a non-party government.” Another leader said the committee is formed with at least 80 per cent non-students and 60 per cent married persons. Anwarul Haque Royal, vice-president of the immediate-past committee, said, “Although the new committee was supposed to be formed with unmarried and real students, it is not reflected finally. The committee is not capable to restore the image of Chhatra Dal and to wage an effective movement.” Meanwhile, post-deprived leaders and activists staged a demonstration and blasted crude bombs at Nayapaltan on Wednesday to protest the committee. A JCD leader said most leaders of the new committee are aged between 40 and 45. Even, they are said to have skipped party programmes earlier. They were rather involved in business using their party posts. He said BNP student affairs secretary Shahiduddin Chowdhury Annie and assistant office secretary Sultan Salahuddin Tuku made the committee with their like-minded persons in a bid to establish supremacy over the organisation. He said Annie and Tuku supplied wrong information to the high command and tactfully convinced them. “Most of the leaders have no studentship and many are also married and have children.” Another leader said, “Most of the office-bearers, including Rajib, Mamun, Akramul and Ishaq have no studentship and they are married while more than 150 officials of the new committee have no studentship.” Even, many in the new committee are connected with Chhatra League, Chhatra Shibir, expatriates and businessmen, he mentioned. Meanwhile, the new committee led by Rajib and Akramul greeted Khaleda Zia with bouquets at her Gulshan office on Wednesday night. However, several hundred supporters of organising secretary Ishaq staged a demonstration against the new committee at the same place at night. Some five Molotov cocktails were exploded outside the chairperson’s office. The protesters chanted slogans against Annie and Tuku, saying: “We don’t accept Chhatra Dal committee made by Annie and Tuku.”
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Non-students, married youths dominate JCD committee:Daily Sun
of the party, specifically during the movement centring the January 5 polls, were deprived of deserving posts in the fresh committee. The new committee also frustrated grass-roots male and female leaders, thus making them unhappy with the party’s high command, including chairperson Khaleda Zia and senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman. The new committee was announced on Tuesday night with Rajib Ahsan as its president and Akramul Hasan as general secretary. Mamunur Rashid Mamun has been made senior vice-president and Ishaq Sarkar organising secretary. The committee includes 33 vice-presidents and 35 joint secretaries. Khaleda approved the 201-member partial committee of Chhatra Dal, dissolving the earlier one. Talking to reporters at BNP’s Nayapaltan headquarters, JCD President Rajib Ahsan said, “The new committee will play an active role in realising students’ rights and voting rights as well.” “We’ll restore all fundamental rights of the people, including student community, through waging a movement at educational institutions. We’re ready for making the highest sacrifice to restore democracy.” Claiming that the BNP supremo and her son Tarique have prioritised youths in the new JCD committee, the student leader said they will form all unit committees of Chhatra Dal, including Dhaka University, immediately. On studentship of new office-bearers, JCD vice-president Nazmul Hassan said, “Many leaders of the committee have studentship at different educational institutions. It’s not mandatory that central JCD leaders must be regular students. Experience and courage measure high to select central leaders.” JCD sources said Khaleda held several meetings with student leaders at her Gulshan office on how to revamp the organisation following its ‘poor’ performance in the recent anti-government movement. She received reports on JCD leaders from various sources before making the new committee. The reports were based on different grounds, including performance in the movement, family background and studentship. Tarique Rahman also made a list of the new committee of Chhatra Dal and handed over it to her mother during her visit to Saudi Arabia, sources added. “We hope the new committee would be formed with real students, dedicated and active on the streets of movement. Khaleda Zia’s meeting with JCD leaders made us hopeful, but finally we are upset as the new committee did not follow the JCD constitution appropriately,” said a top JCD leader seeking anonymity. “The committee is formed with inactive, non-student and married persons. This is very unfortunate,” he told daily sun. “The new committee again has proved that performance doesn’t matter to get a good post but lobbying and money are important to get desired posts in Chhatra Dal. We doubt whether the new committee can wage any effective movement to realise the demand for polls under a non-party government.” Another leader said the committee is formed with at least 80 per cent non-students and 60 per cent married persons. Anwarul Haque Royal, vice-president of the immediate-past committee, said, “Although the new committee was supposed to be formed with unmarried and real students, it is not reflected finally. The committee is not capable to restore the image of Chhatra Dal and to wage an effective movement.” Meanwhile, post-deprived leaders and activists staged a demonstration and blasted crude bombs at Nayapaltan on Wednesday to protest the committee. A JCD leader said most leaders of the new committee are aged between 40 and 45. Even, they are said to have skipped party programmes earlier. They were rather involved in business using their party posts. He said BNP student affairs secretary Shahiduddin Chowdhury Annie and assistant office secretary Sultan Salahuddin Tuku made the committee with their like-minded persons in a bid to establish supremacy over the organisation. He said Annie and Tuku supplied wrong information to the high command and tactfully convinced them. “Most of the leaders have no studentship and many are also married and have children.” Another leader said, “Most of the office-bearers, including Rajib, Mamun, Akramul and Ishaq have no studentship and they are married while more than 150 officials of the new committee have no studentship.” Even, many in the new committee are connected with Chhatra League, Chhatra Shibir, expatriates and businessmen, he mentioned. Meanwhile, the new committee led by Rajib and Akramul greeted Khaleda Zia with bouquets at her Gulshan office on Wednesday night. However, several hundred supporters of organising secretary Ishaq staged a demonstration against the new committee at the same place at night. Some five Molotov cocktails were exploded outside the chairperson’s office. The protesters chanted slogans against Annie and Tuku, saying: “We don’t accept Chhatra Dal committee made by Annie and Tuku.”
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