Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal

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Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal
Founded	1980
Headquarters	28/1 New Paltan, Dhaka
Ideology	Nationalism, Progressiveness
Mother party	Bangladesh Nationalist Party
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Bangladesh Jatiyotabadi Chhatradal (Bengali: জাতীয়তাবাদী ছাত্রদল Jatiyôtabadee Chhatrô Dôl), also known as JCD, is a student organization of Bangladesh that operates as the student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).^[1] Many of the top BNP leaders and policy-makers today have once been closely associated with JCD and came to acclaim as student leaders.
As the student wing of the BNP, Chhatra Dal goes by 19 major points^[2], based on how the mother organization runs its political activities. After the Bangladesh Nationalist Party was founded by Ziaur Rahman, the necessity of a strong student organization was realized, after which Ziaur Rahman founded Chhatra Dol. Rahman's popularity as a radical reformer and charismatic appearance, especially to the youth of the country, triggered a mass recruitment to the organization at the first stages^{[citation needed]}.
At present Jatiyotabadi Chhatradal is led by a committee which is not like a student organization (the president is about to be 50 years))