AL names 16 presidium members, 4 joint gen secys

Awami League President Sheih Hasina today announced 16 names of her party’s presidium members, four joint secretaries and treasurer on the second day of the party’s two-day long 20th national council held at the Institute of Engineers’ Bangladesh.

The 16 presidium members are: Sheikh Hasina (ex-officio as president), Obaidul Quader (ex-officio as general secretary), Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, Matia Chowdhury, Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim, Mohammad Nasim, Kazi Zafarullah, Syed Ashraful Islam, Advocate Sahara Khatun, Engineer Mosharraf Hossain, Nurul Islam Nahid, Dr Abdur Razzak, Faruk Khan, Abdul Mannan Khan, Ramesh Chandra Sen and Pijush Kanti Bhattacharya.

The four joint secretaries are: Mahbub-Ul-Alam Hanif, Dr Dipu Moni MP, Advocate Jahangir Kabir Nanak and Abdur Rahman while the treasurer is Ashiqur Rahman.

Two posts of the party’s presidium members remain vacant.

According to the amendments, the number of presidium members will be increased up to 19, including party president and general secretary, from the existing 15 while that of joint secretaries up to four from the existing three.

Besides, there will be eight organising secretaries in place of seven.

The councilors gave absolute power to the Awami League chief to appoint the rest leaders and office bearers of the party.