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JCD keeps faith in above 40 'youths'

Rakib Hasnet Suman
Backing out from its earlier commitment to install young leadership in the JCD, the BNP high command yesterday named the top five leaders of the new central committee of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD).
Newly picked President Abdul Quader Bhuiyan Jewel and General Secretary Habibur Rashid Habib left
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their academic studies at least 15 years ago. Both of them are over 40.
The three others — senior vice-president Bazlul Karim Chowdhury Abed, joint general secretary SM Obaidul Haque Nasir and organising secretary Rajib Ahsan — also completed their studentship several years ago.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia early yesterday endorsed the leadership of the JCD central committee.
Experts, however, said Khaleda cannot approve such a committee as her party is registered with the Election Commission under the Representation of the People (Amendment) Act,2009.
“It is a clear violation of the RPO as there is no provision to maintain affiliated or associated body with a political party," said Badiul Alam Majumdar, secretary of Sujan, a civil society organisation.
Later a press release with the names of the top leaders of five JCD units — central, Dhaka University, Jagannath University, Dhaka South and Dhaka North — was sent to the media around 4:00am.
Rest of the names of the 201-member central committee will be announced later, said the release.
Declaring committees
through issuing press releases has become a common practice for the JCD as it could not hold any central council since 1993 due to internal feuds.
Several factions of the students' body even engaged in gunfights when the BNP high-ups had planned to hold a council.
The tenure of the JCD's immediate past central committee led by Sultan Salauddin Tuku and Amirul Islam Alim expired on July 1 last year.
The committee was formed on July 1,2009 for only six months, but the BNP high command failed to reorganise it in the last three years.
According to the JCD constitution, the central committee is formed for two years.
In his reaction, Abdul Quader Bhuiyan Jewel thanked the party chairperson for picking him as the new JCD president and sought cooperation from all to run the organisation smoothly.
Habibur Rashid Habib, the new general secretary, is now in the US along with his familyonapersonalvisit.
On April 5 last year, he was shot allegedly by a group of JCD activists in the capital's Shantinagar.
Talking to The Daily Star, BNP's student affairs secre-tary Shahiduddin Chowdhury Anee said the new leaders were picked for their dedication and efficiency.
He claimed that the leaders of the DU unit are still students.
Party insiders, however, said the top three leaders of the unit including President Mahidul Hasan Hiru and General Secretary Masud Khan Parvez have already completed their academic studies.
Some JCD leaders complained that Hiru was an activist of the pro-AL student wing Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL).
He led an attack on a JCD procession on the campus on February 2, 2001. The following day, national dailies published photos and news reports on the incident.
Denying the allegations Hiru claimed that the photos were superimposed.