Staff Reporter :The BNP leaders who have been assigned to tackle the situation of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), the student wing of the party, held closed-door meeting with the leaders of the new committee and the post-deprived JCD men. BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia had asked the party acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Dhaka city unit convener Mirza Abbas, Juba Dal president Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal and some other party leaders to tackle the situation without delay. The leaders held a meeting with the dissident JCD activists on Monday, while Mirza Abbas and Moazzem Hossain Alal held Tuesday’s meeting at the residence of Mirza Abbas in city’s Shahjahanpur. Sources said that the meeting ended without any decision. Mirza Abbas said that the problem relating to the JCD committee would be resolved soon. “We are finding strategy to resolve the problem,” he said. The meeting sources, however, said that the two BNP leaders asked the dissident JCD men to accept the new committee declared by the party supremo. They also assured the dissidents that some of them would be included in the central committee, as only names of 151 members out of 201-member committee were declared. Whose names can’t be accommodated in the committee, they will be accommodated in other front bodies of the BNP. Khaleda Zia approved the 201-member partial committee on October 14. Soon after the approval, the post-deprived JCD men began demonstration against the new committee. Meanwhile, 22 JCD men were detained from in front of the party’s Nayapaltan office and its nearby areas on Tuesday morning. Police said that they picked up them on suspicion that they might create anarchy in the area. The JCD men were arrested while they were going towards the office, said eyewitnesses. Mirza Fakhrul protested the arrest of the JCD men and blamed the government for instigating a group of the student organisation to stage demonstration against the new JCD committee. Government agents were involved in blasting crude bombs and attacking the rivals in front of the BNP office on Sunday, he alleged.Speaking at a discussion at the National Press Club, he also alleged that the government was working to create division among the leaders and activists of BNP and 20-party alliance to achieve political gain.
