JCD New Committee Soon
Now beset with 11 factions
Split has intensified within BNP's student front Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) as a new central committee to the JCD will be announced soon by the party high command.
A debate has also emerged as to whether the young leaders and current students are given JCD leadership, as its top central leaders are aged over 40.
JCD sources said BNP's Senior Vice-chairman Tarique Rahman will directly influence the formation of JCD's new committee and for that the JCD leaders aspiring posts are trying to maintain close connections with Tarique and top BNP leaders.
According to the sources, about 11 factions are now being maintained by different top-level leaders of the JCD to show their control over the activists and press the demand to be in the leadership.
There are two sub-groups in the faction led by the central president Sultana Salahuddin Tuku; one is maintained by Dhaka University (DU) unit's senior joint convener Obayedul Haque Nasir and the other by Mahidul Islam Hiru.
JCD general secretary Amirul Islam Khan Aleem loyal group is also divided into two groups; one is maintained by central joint sectary Shahidullah Imran and the other by assistant organising secretary Mashiur Rahman Mishu.
Besides, former organising secretary Abdul Kader Bhuiyan Jewel, vice-president Nurul Islam Nayan, former president of DU unit Hasan Mamun, general secretary Saiful Islam Feroz, former central leaders Shipon and Khokon, and present organising secretary Khokon also maintain their groups.
JCD insiders said many factions inside the organisation were created due to the possibility of a new committee formation, demand for an age limit of the leaders, and grievances of junior leaders on the top two leaders.
The incumbent central committee has already expired, as it was formed on June 2, 2009 for six months.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on the anniversary of JCD on January 1 said the new committee of the JCD would be comprised of current students.
Mahidul Islam Hiru, one of the joint conveners of DU unit JCD, told The Daily Star that it is the need of the time that the JCD leadership should be given to the younger ones who are more dynamic.
The organisation's central leaders expressed deep resentment at a meeting on December 11, against its two top leaders, accusing them of failing to run the organisation efficiently.
BNP's student affair secretary Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Anee had also expressed resentment on the top two leaders for poor performance of the JCD in the BNP-called hartals.
JCD factions clashed several times on DU campus and other places during the past two years. On January 17 last year JCD president Sultan Salahuddin Tuku and 24 others were injured in an internal clash with leaders deprived of posts and followers of the central committee leaders.
Clashes might erupt again when the time for announcement of the new committee will get closer, according to a top JCD leader.
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