Dhaka: The new committee of Jatiyatabadi Mohila Dal, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)’s women wing, was announced on Tuesday with Afroza Abbas, wife BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas, its president and Sultana Ahmed general secretary.

Nurjahan Yasmin has been made its senior vice-president, while Jeba Khan vice president and Helen Jerin Khan joint general secretary, said a BNP press release.

Mohila Dal’s Dhaka city north and south units were also announced, reports UNB.

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir approved the new committees following the party chairperson’s directives.

Peyara Mostafa and Amena Begum have been made Mohila Dal’s Dhaka north unit president and secretary respectively, while Razia Alim its

Dhaka south unit president and Shamsunnahar Begum general secretary.

Afroza was earlier made assistant women affairs secretary in the party’s new executive committee announced on 6 August.

Abbas’ wife came in the limelight when she spearheaded the election campaign of her husband who had contested the elections to Dhaka South City Corporation last year.