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Advisers to help BNP grassroots

Size of lower-tier bodies to be expanded

SHAKHAWAT L1TON and RAKIB HASNET SUMAN
At its fifth national council the BNP amended its constitution to expand the size of all its grassroots level executive committees and form advisory bodies for each committee to revamp the party's organisational capacity countrywide.
Senior party leaders, former office bearers and locally well-known people who are involved in BNP's activities will be made advisers to the grassroots level executive committees, says the amended provision of the BNP charter approved at the December 8 national council.
An 11-member advisory committee will be formed for each metropolitan and district unit executive committee of BNP, nine-member advisory bodies for upazila and municipality level committees and seven-member panels for party units at union parishad and municipality ward level.
"Party units concerned will nominate the advisory committees.
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Members of the advisory committee will advise the executive committee concerned and participate in the party's meetings and programmes," says the amended constitution of BNP.
In the past, the party charter allowed only the BNP chairman to form an advisory council to advise him/her on special affairs.
The fresh BNP constitution has also created 39 new posts in the national executive committee. These posts include one senior vice-chairman and one senior joint secretary general besides secretarial posts on various affairs.
The number of members of the standing committee was also increased to 19 from 15.
A number of senior BNP leaders said the grassroots level committees will get new life once their size is increased and the advisory committees are formed to guide them properly.
They said the party grassroots level must be revamped before launching street agitations against the government.
Party sources said the leadership of the grassroots level executive committees will be bestowed on youths while experienced senior leaders, who are presently leading these committees, will be made advisers.
The number of members in the executive committee of the BNP's metropolitan unit
has been increased to 171 from 101. Committees of thana and ward units in a metropolitan city will have 121 and 71 members instead of 71 and 51 members.
The district unit committee ofBNP will have 151 members instead of 101 while the upazila unit committee will have 101 members instead of 71.
The size of the municipality unit committee has been expanded to have 101 members instead of 71 and that of the union parishad unit committee to have 71 members instead of 51.
Addressing the grassroots level leaders from across the country, Khaleda Zia, who was re-elected BNP chief on December 4, in the party's national council last Tuesday said the party council aimed to bring qualitative changes within the party.
She asked party leaders to turn BNP into a competent mechanism in implementing the 1 9 - point future programme she unveiled. The BNP chief also asked the grassroots level leaders to prepare for tough agitation against the government in the coming days.
The BNP, which conceded a massive debacle in the December 29 parliamentary election mainly because of misrule and unbridled corruption during its 2001-2006 tenure, is now working to rejuvenate the party and its grassroots level.