Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Chatra Dal

Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Chatra Dal (Bengali: জাতীয়তাবাদী ছাত্রদল Jatiyôtabadee Chhatrô Dôl),[2] also known as J.C.D, is the student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).[3] Many of the top BNP leaders and policy-makers today were once closely associated with JCD and developed as student leaders.

Bangladesh Nationalist Student Party
জাতীয়তাবাদী ছাত্রদল,
Jatiyôtabadee Chhatrô Dôl
PresidentFazlur Rahman Khokon[1]
Secretary GeneralIqbal Hossain Shamol [1]
Founded1st January 1979 (1st January 1979)
Headquarters28/1 New Paltan, Dhaka
IdeologyBangladeshi Nationalism Progressivism
Mother partyBangladesh Nationalist Party

History

After the Bangladesh Nationalist Party was founded by Ziaur Rahman, he realized that a strong student organization was needed to cherish future leaders, and founded Chhatra Dal on 1 January 1979. As the student wing of the BNP, Chatra Dal has adopted a 19-point programme, based on the mother organization's structure and approach.[3] Chatra Dal was one of the Vanguard organisation in the democracy movement against Military dictator Hussain Muhammed Ershad.[4]

Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Chatra Dal is led by a committee, of whom all the members are students. The Dal has a 736-member national committee. The committee formed in 2016 came under criticism from party activists for including nonstudents and people with criminal cases filed against them; despite Chairperson of BNP Khaleda Zia forbidding it. It also had members who were victims of forced disappearance.[5]

Controversy

In 2002, Sony, a student of BUET, died in a shoot out between two fractions of JCD.[6][7]

JCD activist attacked opposition student bodies, journalists, and vandalised the office of Dhaka University Teachers Association president AAMS Arefin Siddique on 11 September 2004.[8]

On 19 January 2010 factional clashes of JCD left 25 people injured including proctor and 4 police officers.[9]

200 activists of JCD attacked its own headquarters in Naya Paltan on 12 December 2010 over the formation of unit committee.[10]

On 26 May 2013 JCD vandalised 25 vehicles during a protest in Dhaka.[11]

See also

References
  1. "Khokon, Shyamol new president, gen secy of JCD". The Daily Star. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  2. "Constitution of JCD". jcd-bnp.org. Archived from the original on 21 March 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
  3. "Bangladesh National party". bnpbd.org. Archived from the original on 21 March 2015. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
  4. "The Other Woman". The Daily Star. 31 January 2014. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  5. "Non-students rule new JCD committee". The Daily Star. 8 February 2016. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  6. "Sony's death anniversary observed". bdnews24.com. 7 June 2005. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  7. "The Tragedy of Student Politics". The Daily Star. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  8. "JCD let loose terror on DU campus". The Daily Star. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  9. "JCD men fight at DU". The Daily Star. 19 January 2010. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  10. "Dhaka College JCD men ransack central office". The Daily Star. 13 December 2010. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  11. "JCD men vandalise 17 vehicles in capital". The Daily Star. 27 May 2013. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
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