The BNP has reorganised its Dhaka Metropolitan South convening committee, bringing back former convener Abdus Salam to lead the unit. Tanvir Ahmed Robin has been retained as member secretary.
Former Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal president Abdul Kader Bhuiyan Jewel has been appointed senior joint convener. ANM Saiful Islam has retained his position as joint convener.
The changes were announced in a party press release today (8 November). The previous convener, Rafiqul Alam Majnu, an MP from Feni-1, has been dropped from the reorganised committee.
Salam is a freedom fighter and a member of the BNP chairman’s advisory council. He previously served as deputy mayor of the undivided Dhaka City Corporation and as member secretary of the undivided Dhaka Metropolitan BNP. He took charge as administrator of Dhaka South City Corporation in February this year.
He also served as chief coordinator of BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman’s election campaign in the Dhaka-17 constituency during the 12 February parliamentary election.
Jewel became Chhatra Dal president in 2012. He later served as general secretary of Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal and held a central BNP position in volunteer affairs.
The BNP formed a 49-member convening committee under Salam in August 2021 and dissolved it in June 2024. In July that year, Majnu was appointed convener and Tanvir member secretary. A 61-member committee was approved in December 2024. Majnu was elected MP from Feni-1 in the 12 February election.
