BNP finalises leaders of convening committees

BNP has finalised names for conveners and joint conveners posts in its organisational district units' convening committees to reorganise the party at the grassroots level.
However, a few of the names are yet to be finalised and discussions were going on last night to finalise them, sources said.
Party leaders said the BNP would announce the names this week after dissolving the existing committees of its 75 organisational district units.
According to the party's decision, conveners and joint conveners will form 51-member convening committees for their own district units and those committees will hold district councils within two months.
"The convening committees will be assigned to form new committees at district-, upazila- and union-levels through the council," Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, member of the party's standing committee, told reporters yesterday.
On Saturday night, the standing committee finally approved the names of conveners and joint conveners of district convening committees of four divisions. The committee last night sat again to decide on the names of conveners and joint conveners of district convening committees in Dhaka and Chittagong divisions.
The standing committee meeting was going on with BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia presiding and a handful of names yet to be finalised when this report was filed around 10:00pm.
"Today [Sunday] the district convening committees of the remaining two divisions--Dhaka and Chittagong--will be finalised," Mosharraf said, adding that the party is considering this year as "the year of reorganisation".
BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain, Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Moudud Ahmed, RA Gani, Mahbubuddin Ahmad, Shamsul Islam and Mahbubur Rahman were present at the meeting.
Meanwhile, a group of leaders of Islami Oikya Jote (IOJ) led by its General Secretary Abdul Latif Nezami met Leader of the Opposition Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan office yesterday evening.
Later at a joint press briefing Nezami and BNP Office Secretary Rizvi Ahmed demanded release of Fazlul Haq Amini, chairman of a faction of IOJ. The two parties also condemned the arrest of Amini.
They also urged leaders and worker to unite and forge a movement against "the government's repression".