The BNP yesterday inducted more new faces in its national executive committee in a bid to rejuvenate the party rank and file. BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the names of 20 assistant organising secretaries—two each for the party’s 10 organisational divisions—at a press conference at the party headquarters in the city. The names of the assistant organising secretaries were announced one month after the party’s national council. Eighteen are new and two were in the previous committee.
The newly announced assistant organising secretaries are: Abdus Salam Azad and Shafiqul Islam Babul (Dhaka Division), Mahbubur Rahman Shamim and Abul Hashem Bakar (Chittagong Division), Abdul Momin Talukder and Shahin Shawkat (Rajshahi Division), Aninda Islam Amit and Jayanta Kumar Kundu (Khulna Division), Prof. Akand Kuddusur Rahman and Mahbubul Haq Nannu (Barisal Division), Dildar Hossain Selim and Kalimuddin Milon (Sylhet Division), Shamsuzzaman and Jahangir Hossain (Rangpur Division), Shariful Islam and Wares Ahmed (Mymensingh Division),  Ali Newaz Khoiam and Selimuzzaman (Faridpur Division) and Mostaque Hossain and Abdul Awal Khan (Comilla).
Besides, Col (Retd) Anwarul Azim was declared as the organising secretary for Comilla Division. The names of 40 leaders were announced over three phases for the party's national executive committee. In the first phase, Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was appointed as the party’s full-fledged secretary general, Ruhul Kabir Rizvi as senior joint secretary general and Mizanur Rahman Sinha as treasurer. On April 9, the names of seven joint secretaries general and nine organising secretaries were announced in the second phase.