Selim president, Zafar general secretary for CPB again

Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) yesterday [Monday] elected Mujahidul Islam Selim and Syed Abu Zafar Ahmed as the party's president and general secretary respectively for next four years, they are re-elected with party 11th congress. They were elected during the first meeting of a 49 member central committee, which was formed at the end of the party's 11th congress. A four-day 11th congress of the party ended on Monday in the capital. During the congress, the party amended some provisions in its manifesto.