The National Citizen Party (NCP) on Friday reorganised its central committee, retaining Nahid Islam as convenor and Akhtar Hossen as member secretary.
The reconstituted committee has 195 members and includes a 16-member political council, which is the party’s highest decision-making body.
The party named Hasnat Abdullah, a Member of Parliament, and Nasiruddin Patwary as senior joint convenors. Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuyain and Sarjis Alam were appointed senior joint secretaries.
All four have moved up from earlier organisational roles. Hasnat previously served as the party’s chief organiser for the southern region, while Patwary was chief coordinator. Asif was the party’s spokesperson, and Sarjis was chief organiser for the northern region.
The 16-member political council
The political council comprises: Nahid Islam, Akhter Hosen, Nasiruddin Patwary, Hasnat Abdullah, Sarjis Alam, Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain, Advocate Abdullah Al Amin, Ariful Islam Adib, Atik Mujahid, Abdul Hannan Masood, Ali Ahsan Zonayed, Sarwar Tusher, Akram Hossain, Saleh Uddin Sifat, Mahmuda Alam Mitu and Nusrat Tabassum Meanwhile, the party NCP on Friday appointed Yeasir Arafat as its media secretary as part of a reshuffle of its central convening committee, which now has 195 members.
In his new role, Arafat will oversee the party’s communications with journalists and media outlets.
Arafat joined the NCP in February this year, about a month before the national election, bringing his nine-year journalism career to an end.
Since joining the party, he has handled media-related responsibilities at the central level while working to expand its political presence in his home district of Kushtia.
Before joining NTV in 2018, Arafat was one of the co-founders of Joban, an analytical magazine that was eventually shut down by the Awami League government. He later joined the daily Samakal in 2022.
Following the July uprising, Arafat helped establish the Bangladesh Free Press Initiative, bringing together at least two dozen journalists from mainstream media outlets. He resigned as convener of the organisation when he joined the NCP.
He is also a co-founder of July Memories, a digital archive documenting graffiti, songs, slogans and poems from the uprising. The website features photographs of around 10,000 pieces of graffiti collected from 11 districts across the country.