The National Citizen Party (NCP) has formed a 53-member central convening committee for its women’s platform, Jatiya Nari Shakti.

The platform’s Member Secretary Mahmuda Alam Mitu confirmed the development in a press release issued yesterday.

The committee was approved by NCP Convener Nahid Islam and Member Secretary Akhter Hossain, the release said.

NCP Joint Convener Monira Sharmin has been made convener, while Joint Member Secretary Saifun Bushra Mishma has been named senior joint convener. Mahmuda Alam Mitu will serve as member secretary.

Meanwhile, one of the listed leaders has announced her resignation from all party posts, expressing surprise at her inclusion.

Former Dhaka University student Dyuti Aranya Chowdhury, named as a joint member secretary, said she had already decided to become inactive in the party before the election.

“I am surprised to see my name on the Jatiya Nari Shakti central committee. I have no involvement with this committee; I have resigned from all NCP posts and submitted my resignation letter,” she wrote in a Facebook post yesterday.

Dyuti previously served as NCP’s northern region organiser and a senior joint member secretary of its youth wing, Jatiya Jubo Shakti.

Contacted, Mahmuda Mitu said they were unaware of Dyuti’s decision to leave the party.

“We received her name from Jubo Shakti and assumed they had spoken to her. That is why we did not reconfirm it,” she said.