Abu Baker Majumder has been elected president and Tahmid Al Mudassir Chowdhury general secretary of Jatiya Chhatra Shakti, the student wing of the National Citizen Party (NCP), at its first council.
Abu Towhid Md Siam has been elected organisational secretary.
The council was held at the Bot Tola on the Dhaka University campus on Saturday (September 12). A total of eight candidates contested the posts of president, general secretary and organisational secretary.
Baker contested the presidential post against outgoing senior vice-president Mahfuz Khan. Tahmid contested the general secretary post against central vice-president Limon Hasan and office secretary Mahfuzur Rahman.
For organisational secretary, Abu Towhid Md Siam, organisational secretary for the northern region, contested against Shamoli Sultana Jedni and Md Zahirul Islam, organisational secretary for the Dhaka division.
Meanwhile, Hasib Al Islam has been elected president of the Dhaka University unit of Chhatra Shakti. Ferdous Aiyam has been elected general secretary, while Md Zahir Raihan has been elected organisational secretary. Speaking at the council, NCP convener Nahid Islam said the aspirations of the mass uprising were not being fulfilled. He alleged that the BNP government was not keeping its promises and had started moving towards an authoritarian path.
He called on everyone to work together to implement the verdict of the national referendum. NCP member secretary Akhter Hossain said the government had moved away from reforms without implementing the referendum verdict. He alleged that increasing the marks for viva voce in the Public Service Commission had created an opportunity to appoint people based on party affiliation.
