Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Chatra Dal
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Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal জাতীয়তাবাদী ছাত্রদল, Jatiyôtabadee Chhatrô Dôl |
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| Founded | 1979 |
| Headquarters | 28/1 New Paltan, Dhaka |
| Ideology | Nationalism, Progressiveness |
| Mother party | Bangladesh Nationalist Party |
Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Chatra Dal (Bengali: জাতীয়তাবাদী ছাত্রদল Jatiyôtabadee Chhatrô Dôl), also known as J.C.D, is the student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). Many of the top BNP leaders and policy-makers today were once closely associated with JCD and developed as student leaders.
After the Bangladesh Nationalist Party was founded by Ziaur Rahman, he realized a strong student organization was needed to cherish future leaders, and founded Chhatra Dal on 1 January 1979. As the student wing of the BNP, Chatra Dal has adopted a 19-point programme, based on the mother organization's structure and approach. Chatra Dal was one of the Vanguard organisation in the democrcy movement against Military dictator Hussain Muhammed Ershad.
Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Chatra Dal is led by a committee, of whom all the members are students. The Dal has 736 member national committee. The committee formed in 2016 came under criticism from party activists for including non students and people with criminal cases filed against them; despite Chairperson of BNP, Khaleda Zia forbidding it. It also had members who were victims of forced disappearance.
Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal carried out a campaign of harassment against the NGO Proshika in 2004. Its headquarters were laid by SA Khaleq led Chhatra Dal. Two local offices of the NGO in Mehdiganj, Barisal were damaged by Chhatra Dal activist. This was done as part of the then Bangladesh Nationalist Party led government as part of a campaign of harassment against the NGO. JCD activist attacked opposition student bodies, journalists, and vandalised the office of Dhaka University Teachers Association president AAMS Arefin Siddique on 11 September 2004. On 15 October 2015 Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal and Islami Chhatra Shibir fought between themselves in BL College in Daulatpur. Bangladesh rifles and riot police were employed in the college after the violence.
In 2005, Sony, a brilliant student of BUET, died in a shoot out between two fractions of JCD. On 19 November 2006, JCD attacked and injured 5 activists of Chhatra Sangram Parishad and exploded bombs in Dhaka University. Bangladesh Police filed cases against 150 activists of JCD for attacking police during fractional protests in Sylhet. President of Jhenidah district unit of Chhatra Dal, Ashraful Islam Pintu, was arrested with a gun and bomb on 9 November 2008.
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