A faction of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) – consisting of more than one-third of the student body’s central panel – has decided to submit a complaint letter against the “irregularities and mismanagement” by BCL president Al Nahian Khan Joy and general secretary Lekhak Bhattacharjee. Contacted, some BCL central committee leaders confirmed the development, saying that they went to the Awami League party office today (September 10, 2022) and tried to submit the complaint letter to the party’s Office Secretary Biplab Barua but couldn’t reach him. They said that some top leaders of Awami League have assured them of taking necessary steps against Al Nahian and Lekhak. However, they will try once again to send the letter to the party high-ups. A copy of the letter has been obtained by UNB, which says that Al Nahian and Lekhak have formed most of the recent committees by taking money from the candidates. Besides, they have posted “former Shibir and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) activists along with drug addicts and drug peddlers” in the top positions of the committees, they alleged. Read: BCL Central Committee announcement sets off factional clash at DU; 7 injured The letter also says that Lekhak Bhattacharjee is “engaged in stone trading in Sylhet and has created a monopoly by controlling the business there”. Also, Lekhak has managed licenses in the name of his brother Avinav Bhattacharjee for Hilsa trading, abusing his influence as a top leader of BCL, it says. The letter also alleged that Al Nahian and Lekhak regularly support wrongdoings of some BCL leaders by not taking any action against them.

Three months after they were made acting chief and acting deputy chief of the organisation, Al-Nahean Khan Joy and Lekhak Bhattacharjee have been made president and general secretary of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) respectively.