The agitation was to protest against new subcommittees in which, the agitators claimed, the posts were sold leaving the dedicated ex-BCL leaders out. Dominated largely by senior leaders, the subcommittees of assistant secretaries hold out the hope for its former student leaders to find a niche. Quader, who was a Presidium Member at the time, was unhappy at the rise in the number of subcommittee assistant secretaries. They do not say they are assistant secretaries of a subcommittee". He had declared that the number of subcommittee assistant secretaries would be limited to 100.

Source: bd News24 January 21, 2018 14:37 UTC