Staff Reporter :
Nearly a month after its national council, the BNP has announced names of 21 more leaders, including an organising secretary and 20 other assistant organising secretaries of its new National Executive Committee (NEC).
The party’s Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed disclosed the names of the central committee at a press briefing at the party’s Nayapaltan central office in the city on Monday.
With this, BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia has appointed a total of 39 leaders to her party’s NEC, exercising the power bestowed upon her by the councillors at its 6th National Council held on March 19.
The BNP chief has so far appointed to the posts of Secretary General, Senior Joint Secretary General, Treasurer, Joint Secretaries General, Organising Secretaries and Assistant Organising Secretaries of her party.
Besides, Khaleda Zia and her son Tarique Rahman had been elected party Chairperson and the Senior Vice-Chairman ahead of the council.
Most of the central leaders, picked for the assistant organising secretary posts, are new and young. Among the announced 21 names, 19 leaders have been taken in important posts of the party with promotion, while two leaders have got no change in their posts.
The newly appointed Comilla divisional organising secretary is Col (retd) Anwarul Azim for Comilla division.
Besides, names of 20 assistant organising secretaries, two in each of the party’s 10 organisational divisions were announced. Of them, Dhaka divisional assistant organising secretary Abdus Salam Azad and Rajshahi divisional assistant organising secretary Abdul Momin Talukdar Khoka were in the same post in the previous committee.
The 18 new BNP assistant organising secretaries are: Shahidul Islam Babul (Dhaka), Mahbubur Rahman Shamim and Abul Hashem Bakar (Chittagong), Shahin Shawkat (Rajshahi), Anindya Islam Anik and Joyanta Kumar Kundu (Khulna), Akan Kuddus Rahman and Mahbubul Haq Nannu (Barisal), Dildar Hossain Selim and Kalimuddin Ahmed Milon (Sylhet) Shamsuzzaman and Jahangir Alam (Rangpur), Mostak Ahmed and Abdul Awal Khan (Comilla), Shariful Alam and Wares Ali Mamun (Mymensingh), and Ali Newaz Khoiyam and Selimuzzaman Selim (Faridpur).
Earlier, names of seven joint secretaries and nine organising secretaries were announced on April 9.
