BNP forms 71 district convening committees

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday announced convening committees for its 71, out of 75 district units, dissolving the incumbent bodies and asked them to elect fully-fledged panels through council sessions by November 15.
The convening committees for the Dhaka city, Dhaka district, Manikganj and Sunamganj were yet to be announced.
The party’s office secretary, Rizvi Ahmed, in a briefing at the party’s central office announced names of conveners and joint conveners of the 71 district units and asked them to form a fully-fledged convening committee with 51 members for each district by June 25. The district committees have also been asked to form convening committee for upazila/thana/municipality committees by July 15, and for union/ward committees by July 30.
The party will also go on a month-long recruitment campaign to garner fresh primary members and renew the membership of the old members between August 16 and September 15.
The party’s national standing committee also set deadlines for holding council sessions at the grassroots levels. As per the deadline, the ward unit councils will have to be completed by September 30, council of the union units by October 15, council of the upazila/ thana/municipality units by October 30, and those of the district and city units by November 15.
If any convening committee fails to meet the deadline, it will also be dissolved.
Conveners of the 71 units are: Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir for Thakurgaon, Mojahar Ali Pradhan for Jaipurhat, Asadul Habib Dulu for Lalmonirhat, Omar Faruque for Kurigram, Mahbubur Rahman for Bogra, Abdul Gafur Sarkar for Saidpur, Ahsan Ahamd for Nilphamari, Iqbal Hasan Tuku for Sirajganj, Habibur Rahman Tota for Pabna, Shahjahan Miah for Chapainawabganj, Kazi Murshed for Natore, Mojahar Hossain for Panchagarh, Samsuzzoha Khan for Naogaon, Azizur Rahman for Rajshahi, Miznur Rahman Minu for the Rajshahi city; Rizwanul Huq for Dinazpur, Ashraf Hossain Barda for Rangpur, Anisuzzaman Babu for Gaibandha, SM Faisal for Habiganj, M Naser Rahman for Moulvibazar, M Ilyas Ali for Sylhet, Dr Shahriyar for the Sylhet city; Selima Rahman for Barisal (north), Mozibar Rahman Sarwar for Barisal (south); Golam Salek for the Barisal city; Golam Nabi Alamgir for Bhola, Gazi Nuruzzman Babul for Pirojpur, Dr T Ahmed for Jhalkati, Abdur Rashid Chunnu Miah for Patuakhali, Matiyar Rahman Talukder for Barguna, Shafiuddin Ahmed for Chandpur, Sirajul Islam for Comilla (north), Rabeya Chowdhury for Comilla (south), Harun or Rashid for Brahmanbaria, Abul Khair Bhuiyan for Laxmipur, M Shahjahan for Noakhali, Sayeed Eskandar for Feni, Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury for the Chittagong city; Golam Akbar Khandkar for Chittagong (north), Zafrul Islam Chowdhury for Chittagong (south), Shahjahan Chowdhury for Cox’s Bazar, Dipen Dewan for Rangamati, Saching Pru Jerry for Bandarban, Wadud Bhuiyan for Khagrachhari, Mahmudul Hasan for Tangail, Amjad Hossain Bhola Mallick for Jamalpur, Saiful Islam Kalam for Sherpur, Afzal H Khan for Mymensingh (north); AK Mosharraf Hossain for Mymensingh (south); Ashrafuddin Khan for Netrakona, Fazlur Rahman for Kishoreganj, Mizanur Rahman Sinha for Munshiganj, ASM Hannan Shah for Gazipur, Khairul Kabir Khokan for Narsingdi, Taimur Alam Khandaker for Narayanganj, Abu Nayeem for Rajbari, Shahjada Mia for Faridpur, Sirajur Rahman Siraj for Gopalganj, Kazi Humayun Kabir for Madaripur, Jamal Sharif Hiru for Shariatpur, Mazedul Islam for Khulna, Nazrul Islam Manju for the Khulna city, Iqbal for Narail, Kabir Murad for Magura, Sohrabuddin for Kushtia, Habibul Islam Habib for Satkhira, Shahidul Islam Chowdhury Nayan for Jessore, Mashiur Rahman for Jhenidah, Amzad Hossain for Meherpur, Mozammel Huq for Chuadanga and Shamsul Huq for Bagerhat.
After the party’s landslide defeat in the December 29 polls, the party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, on January 10 in Comilla announced that all the committees of all tiers of the organisation and its associate bodies would be dissolved and then reorganised through elections.
Following her announcement, the party’s top policymaking body, the standing committee, on February 1 decided to reconstitute all the committees from the grassroots to national levels in a bottom-up approach and formed six committees headed by the party’s joint-secretaries general to get opinions of the leaders of lower units. The committees interviewed the leaders of the upazila and municipality unit between February 3 and February 24.
The party had held its last central council session 15 years ago in 1993 at Manik Mia Avenue in the capital although, according to its constitution, the party is supposed to hold the council session every two years.
The party had held a representatives’ meeting with the participation of the members of the national executive committee in 2006.

Courtesy of NewAgebd