The top 10 leadership positions—dubbed the “Super Ten”—of the youth-led National Citizen Party have been finalised.
The official announcement of the party’s formation will be made this afternoon, from a rally on Manik Mia Avenue, in front of the National Parliament Building in Dhaka.
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Several founding members have referred to the party’s top 10 positions as the “Super Ten.”
Md Nahid Islam has been appointed as the convener of the new political party, while Akhter Hossen will fill the post of member secretary serving as Nahid’s number two.
Nahid Islam resigned from the advisory council of the interim government on Tuesday, to take on his new role.
Akhter Hossen has been serving as member secretary of the Jatiya Nagorik Committee, which is the civic platform of the July uprising leaders.
The senior joint convener position will be filled by Samanta Shermeen and Ariful Islam Adib, while the senior joint member secretary position will go to Tasnim Zara and Nahida Sarwar (Niva).
Additionally, Nasiruddin Patwari has been appointed as the chief coordinator, while Abdul Hannan Masud will serve as the joint coordinator.
Hasnat Abdullah has been designated as the chief organiser (Southern Region), while Sarjis Alam has been assigned the role of chief organiser (Northern Region).
Nahid Islam, NCP convener
Nahid Islam, convener of the new party, was a key organiser of the student movement that toppled Sheikh Hasina.
A sociology graduate from Dhaka University, Nahid was one of the student representatives within the interim government. He resigned from the advisory council last Tuesday.
He became member secretary of Ganotantrik Chhatra Shakti on October 3, 2023, which was a breakaway faction of Chhatra Odhikar Parishad led by Nurul Haque Nur.
Chhatra Shakti was dissolved on September 14, a week after Nagorik Committee was formed.
At the height of the protests in July, he was picked up by law enforcers and tortured until he lost consciousness. He was returned within a couple of days only to be picked up again when the protests gained even more momentum, this time along with five other fellow protesters, and detained at the detective bureau headquarters.
In 2018, Nahid participated in the quota-reform protests that shook the nation. At the time, he received threats from the university administration and teachers.
In 2019, he ran for the post of cultural secretary at Dhaka University Central Students’ Union from Nurul-Rashed-Faruk panel under the banner of Bangladesh Sadharon Chhatra Odhikar Songrokkhon Parishad.
He lost the election and later separated himself from the platform.
He was admitted to DU in 2016.
Akhter Hossen, NCP member secretary
Member secretary of the National Citizen Party, Akhter Hossen is the former social service secretary of the Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu).
He is also one of the key organizers of the Students Against Discrimination, the movement that toppled the Sheikha Hasina regime.
An alumnus of Dhaka University’s law department, Akhter’s came under the spotlight when he observed a hunger strike all by himself protesting against question leak of a Dhaka University admission test.
He was admitted to DU in 2015.
Later, in 2019, he contested the Ducsu polls from the panel of Bangladesh Sadharan Chhatra Odhikar Sangrakkhan Parishad, a platform that had led the 2018 quota reform movement. He contested for the social service secretary post and won.
Akhter later joined Chhatra Odhikar Parishad, a student body of Nurul Haq Nur’s Gono Odhikar Parishad and became president of the student organisation’s DU unit.
In 2023, Akhter floated the Ganotantrik Chhatra Shakti, breaking away from Chhatra Odhikar Parisahd on October 3, 2023 in which he was the convener.
Akhter Hossen was arrested at the base of the Raju Memorial Sculpture around 3:00 PM during on 17 July 2024 just when the quota protest was heating up.
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