The new central committee of the Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal, the youth wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), has been announced after seven years. Saiful Islam Nirob and Sultan Salahuddin Tuku have respectively been appointed the president and general secretary.
BNP secretary-general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir approved the five-member partial central executive committee at the behest of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, said a Juba Dal press release issued at 12:20am yesterday. It was learnt that the new Juba Dal committee was formed about three months ago, but its announcement was delayed due to differences among the top Juba Dal leaders. The five-member committee would form the full committee of the Juba Dal for a three-year term and submit it within one month for approval, said the release. Saiful Islam was the general secretary of the last committee while Salahuddin was students’ affairs assistant secretary of the BNP.
The other office-bearers are: Mortazul Karim Badru, senior vice-president, Nurul Islam Nayon, joint general secretary and Mamun Hasan, organising secretary.
The last Juba Dal committee was formed on March 1, 2010, with Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal as its president and Saiful Alam Nirob as general secretary.
The outgoing Juba Dal president Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal resigned from his post after being selected the BNP’s joint secretary-general after the party’s March 19 national council in Dhaka. The tenure of the last committee expired a long time ago.
Senior vice-president Abdus Slam Azad was first made acting president of the organisation and later vice-president Albert P Costa was given the responsibility as acting president as Azad also left his post.
Along with the central committee, the BNP secretary-general also approved partial committees of Dhaka City (North) and Dhaka City (South) unit of the organisation.
SM Jahangir Hossain and Safiqul Islam Milton have been made president and general secretary of the Dhaka North unit of Juba Dal while Rafiqul Alam Majnu and Golam Maula Shahin are the president and general secretary of Dhaka South respectively.
Mostafa Kamal Riyad has been made senior vice-president, Sharifuddin Ahmed has got the post of general secretary and Mostafa Jaglul Pasha has become organising secretary of Dhaka North. Sharif Hossain has been given the responsibility of senior vice-president and Sayeed Hasan Mintu that of the joint general secretary, and Jamal Uddin Khan Shahin has been appointed organising secretary of Dhaka South.
Meanwhile, several hundred leaders and activists of the Juba Dal assembled in front of the party central office at Naya Paltan yesterday morning and greeted the newly-elected leaders with bouquets. The newly-elected Juba Dal leaders were present at the party office.
Former Juba Dal senior vice-president Abdus Salam Azad greeted the new committee and expressed hope they would be able to carry forward the organisation's activities with utmost sincerity and courage.