Within two and a half months of its launch, the number of the platform’s central members has risen to 107The Jatiya Nagorik Committee has named 45 more people, including former coordinator of the Anti-discrimination Student Movement Sarjis Alam, as the platform's central members. A press release, signed by the committee’s Convener Nasir Uddin Patwary and Member Secretary Akhter Hossain, said on Monday that the development is a part of the organisation’s ongoing process of expanding the central committee. On Sept 8, the Jatiya Nagorik Committee emerged on the political scene within a month of the political changeover following the fall of the government in the mass uprising. A 55-member committee was declared by Nasir, a member of the Movement’s liaison committee, at an event at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka. After unveiling the committee, Nasir said: “We want to reconstruct the state and make policies prioritising the public interest.”

Source: bd News24 November 25, 2024 22:31 UTC