BNP forms 12-member committee to monitor Durga Puja

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has formed a 12-member monitoring committee for the upcoming Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Hindu community in the country.

A press release announcing the committee was issued on Friday.

BNP’s National Executive Committee Joint Secretary General Khairul Kabir Khokon has been named convener, while Joint Secretary General Syed Emran Saleh Prince will serve as member secretary of the committee.

Other members of the committee include BNP Assistant Organising Secretary Jayanta Kumar Kundu, Assistant Secretary (Marginal Human Resource Development Affairs) Aparna Roy Das, assistant secretaries (religious affairs) Amalendu Das Apu and John Gomez, National Executive Committee members Nipun Roy Chowdhury and Ramesh Datto, Jubo Dal Central Committee Labour Affairs Secretary Partha Dey Mandal, Chhatra Dal’s former vice-president Jaydeb Roy, former student leader Milton Baidya and Dhaka University unit Chhatra Dal President Ganesh Chandra Ray Sahas.