Acting President Al-Nahean Khan Joy and Acing General Secretary Lekhak Bhattacharjee have been freed from the current charge and made full-fledged President and General Secretary respectively of the Bangladesh Chhatra League.
BCL’s mother organization Awami League (AL) President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday declared them as
full-fledged President and General Secretary towards the end of her speech at the party’s reunion program in the Suhrawardy Udyan, Dhaka on Saturday, on the occasion of the 72nd founding anniversary of Bangladesh Chhatra League.
In her speech, the Awami League chief said, “Obaidul Quader has placed the proposal and I have relieved them from their acting posts. From now on, Joy is the president of Chhatra League and Lekhak is its General Secretary.”
Earlier, AL General Secretary Obaidul Quader proposed to drop the word ‘acting’ from the posts of Joy and Lekhak.
On September 14, 2019, Al-Nahean Khan Joy and Lekhak Bhattacharjee were made the AL’s student front’s Acting President and Acting General Secretary soon after the then president Rezwanul Haque Chowdhury Shovon and General Secretary Golam Rabbani were removed from their posts amid allegations of extortion.
Awami League Central Working Committee took the decision in a meeting with party chief and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair at Ganabhaban.
The decision was taken at a time when a severe image crisis was ongoing against the ruling party’s student wing.
In this backdrop, both Joy and Lekhak are Dhaka University students. They had been working as Senior Vice-president and Senior Joint General Secretary of BCL during the tenure of Shovon and Rabbani, who took charge after its last council in May 2018.
Joy is the student of Masters in Criminology Department . He hailed from Barishal. He had served BCL as Legal Affairs Secretary in the previous committee. He had been the General Secretary of its Shaheed Sergeant Zahurul Haque Hall unit before that.
Lekhak is also a post-graduate student of the social welfare department. His uncle Swapan Bhattacharjee, an MP from Jashore’s Manirampur, is the State Minister for Rural Development and Cooperatives.
