Dhaka Metropolitan North BNP announced partial convening committee

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has announced a two-member partial convening committee of Dhaka Metropolitan North BNP. In the committee, Dhaka North City Corporation Administrator Shafiqul Islam Khan Milton has been made convener and Member of Parliament S M Jahangir Hossain member secretary.

This information was announced in a press release signed by BNP Joint Office Secretary Muhammad Munir Hossain on Sunday (November 1). The release said instructions have been given to form the full convening committee within the next two weeks.

This important organisational unit of BNP got new leadership more than a month after the previous convening committee was dissolved.

Shafiqul Islam Khan Milton was the BNP candidate in Dhaka-15 constituency in the 13th national parliamentary election. He was defeated by Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman by a margin of 1,614 votes in that election. He was appointed administrator of Dhaka North City Corporation in February after the election.

Earlier, Shafiqul Islam Khan Milton served as vice-president of Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal and member secretary of Dhaka Metropolitan North Jubo Dal.

On the other hand, S M Jahangir was joint convener of the recently dissolved Dhaka Metropolitan North BNP committee. He was elected Member of Parliament from Dhaka-18 constituency with the sheaf of paddy symbol in the 13th national parliamentary election. Earlier he served as president of Dhaka Metropolitan North Jubo Dal.

The 51-member convening committee of Dhaka Metropolitan North BNP led by Aminul Haque and Mostafa Zaman was dissolved on September 30. Earlier on September 25, allegations of involvement of several leaders and activists of Metropolitan North BNP arose in the attack, vandalism and looting incident at Radda MCH-FP Centre in Mirpur-1 area. BNP decided to dissolve the committee after that.