Khokon convener, Prince member secretary: BNP forms 12-member committee to monitor Durga Puja

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The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has formed a monitoring committee on the occasion of the upcoming Sharadiya Durga Puja. The committee, formed around this biggest religious festival of the followers of the Sanatan faith, has 12 members.

Khairul Kabir Khokon, joint secretary general of the BNP’s national executive committee, has been made convener of the committee, and Syed Emran Saleh Prince, another joint secretary general of the party, its member secretary. The names of the committee members were released on Friday (9 October) in a press release signed by BNP Assistant Office Secretary Muhammad Munir Hossain.

Among the other members are Jayanta Kumar Kundu, assistant organising secretary of the BNP’s national executive committee; Aparna Roy Das, assistant marginalised manpower development affairs secretary; Amalendu Das Apu and John Gomes, assistant religious affairs secretaries; and Advocate Nipun Roy Chowdhury and Ramesh Dutta, members of the national executive committee. Also on the committee are Partha Dev Mondal, labour affairs secretary of the Jubo Dal central committee; Joydeb Roy, former vice-president of the Chhatra Dal central committee; former student leader Milton Baidya; and Ganesh Chandra Roy Sahos, president of the Dhaka University unit of Chhatra Dal.