Aggrieved Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal activists, deprived of posts in its new committee, again locked their headquarters on the third floor of BNP’s Nayapaltan central office yesterday demanding that the new committee be dissolved.
Their demands also include removal of BNP student affairs secretaries Shahiduddin Chowdhury Anee and his deputy Sultan Salahuddin Tuku.
Witnesses said nearly a hundred dissident JCD leaders and activists, led by Tariqul Islam Titu and Ferdous Munna and Tarun De, took position in front of the BNP central office around 3:30 pm and chanted slogans against the new committee and Anee and Tuku.
They threatened that they will have no other option but to announce tougher action programmes on Thursday if their demands are not met within the next 48 hours.
Earlier on October 18, the JCD office was padlocked by dissident JCD men.
On October 14, BNP chief Khaleda Zia approved a 201-member partial committee of the party’s student body with Rajib Ahsan as president and Akramul Hasan the general secretary.
But the JCD men, got deprived of posts in the committee, started staging demonstrations in front of the Nayapaltan office from the following day and continued it until BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam’s intervention on October 19.
After nearly one month’s pause, the rebel JCD group resumed their demonstrations in front of BNP’s Nayapaltan central office on November 17 as their demands went unheeded despite Fakhrul’s assurance.