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JCD to get young leadership

Aged leaders to be dropped

Rakib Hasnet Suman
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is planning to drop aged leaders and bestow leadership of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal on young leaders in the new committee to be announced soon.
A group of aged JCD leaders, however, are lobbying to book some FROM PAGE 20
vital posts including president, general secretary and organising secretary. Besides, some influential BNP leaders, who were also student leaders, are lobbying for their own men to be entrusted with these posts to ensure their control over JCD, insiders say.
To overcome this situation, Khaleda Zia has started holding meetings with the central leaders of the organisation and a new committee comprising JCD's senior and junior leaders might be announced soon, the insiders add.
Tenure of JCD’s current committee expired a year ago, but the BNP high command could not lake any decision regarding the new committee due to disputes and conflicts among JCD ranks and file over its leadership.
Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annee, MP, student affairs secretary of the main opposition BNP, said they are working to form a new committee. "Process is underway and the chairperson will announce
the committee in lime," he told The Daily Star.
Meanwhile, besides the JCD leaders and workers, many influential BNP leaders who are former student leaders are trying their best to ensure their dominance in the new committee.
Party insiders say Khaleda would announce the new committee, as JCD, which is considered the country's one of the biggest student organisations, could not hold its council since 1993 due to internal feuds.
On several occasions in the past JCD factions even engaged in gunfights whenever the BNP high-ups had planned to hold a council. Factional clashes also marked almost each announcement of new committee in last 15 years.
Khaleda held a meeting with the central committee leaders on July 19. Meeting sources say around 27 leaders got the chance to express their opinions regarding formation of the new committee.
Talking to The Daily Star, JCD Vice-president Bazlul Karim Chowdhury Abed said the chairperson will hear more leaders of the current committee before finalising herdecision.
Obiadul Haque Nasir, senior joint convener of JCD's Dhaka University unit, said, "We hope a committee of young leaders will be declared soon which will reflect the aspiration of the student community."
Besides the cities, districts, upazilas and municipalities, the organisation is active at all public universi-
ties, government and nongovernment colleges and even in thousands of secondaryschools.
Tenure of the present committee led by President Sultan Salauddin Tuku and General Secretary Amirul Islam Ali expired on July 1 last year. The Tuku-Alim committee was formed on July 1, 2009 for only six months. But the BNP high command could not reorganise the committee in last three years.
According to the JCD constitution, the central committee is formed for two years.