Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Chatradal বাংলাদেশ জাতীয়তাবাদী ছাত্রদল | |
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President | Rakibul Islam Rakib |
Secretary General | Nasir Uddin Nasir |
Founded | 1 January 1979 |
Headquarters | 80, Bhashani Bhaban, Naya Paltan, Dhaka |
Ideology | Civic nationalism National conservatism |
Position | Centre-right |
Mother party | Bangladesh Nationalist Party |
Website | bnpbd.org/chatra-dal |
Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Chatradal (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ জাতীয়তাবাদী ছাত্রদল, lit. 'Bangladesh Nationalist Student Party'; abbreviated as JCD),[1] popularly known as Chatradal or Chatra Dal, is a Bangladeshi student organisation affiliated with Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).[2][3] Many of the top BNP leaders and policy-makers today were once closely associated with JCD and developed as student leaders.[4][5]