JCD committee to be formed 15 July thru polls

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Amid a demonstration by some Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leaders, the schedule for the election to form JCD's new committee was announced on Sunday, reports UNB.

JCD is the student wing of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).

Convenor of JCD election management committee Khairul Kabir Khokon announced that the election will be held on 15 July.

The election will be held to the posts of the president and the secretary, he told a press briefing at the BNP's Naya Paltan central office.

He said the voter list will be published on Monday and the contestants have to vie for posts maintaining the age limit.

On Saturday, the aggrieved leaders of the recently-dissolved JCD committee announced to continue their movement until their demand for either formation of a new short-term committee or the removal of age limit is met.

A BNP press release said a new committee would be formed within the next 45 days based on the opinions of its councillors.

It said candidates planning to vie for various posts will have to be primary members, students of any educational institution in Bangladesh, and must have passed SSC and equivalent examinations after 2000.

The leaders of the dissolved committee demonstrated in front of the BNP office on 11 June and kept its main gate locked for 11 hours demanding the removal of age limit to join its new committee.

Later, they staged demonstrations in front of the BNP office at different times with the same demand.

JCD's last committee was formed on 14 October, 2014, with Rajib Ahsan as its president and Akramul Hasan as general secretary.