UNB, Dhaka :After over four and a half months of its national council, BNP is likely to announce its full-fledged executive committee and standing committee by Saturday as its chairperson has finalised the two committees.”Our chairperson has finalised the full-fledged BNP executive committee and standing committee. It may be announced on Thursday or Saturday,” a BNP senior leader close to Khaleda Zia told UNB on Wednesday.The BNP leader who preferred anonymity said either party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir will announce the committees through a press conference or Khaleda will do it by issuing a press release.Contacted, Fakhrul declined to give any specific date for the announcement of the committees. “Our chairperson is working on it. It’ s almost at the final stage.”He hoped that party leaders and activists will be rejuvenated after the announcement of the committees.BNP vice chairman Abdullah Al Noman said it is a very tough job to form the full-fledged executive and standing committees of a big party like BNP. “Our chairperson is doing this taking time. I hope the results of her painstaking job will be visible very soon.”However, a number of BNP senior leaders said the committees will be announced by Saturday if their chairperson does not change her mind.They said the national executive committee is likely to be 432-member one extending its size from the current 386-member, while the standing committee 21 or 23-member one from the 19-member one.The BNP chairperson has formed the committee applying a strategy to keep happy all party leaders. “Those who won’t get position in the executive committee will be included in the sub-committees to be formed on different ministries.
