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Jihadi announced the committee at a press conference at Khilgaon Chourasta Jaam-e Mosque in Dhaka.
He also announced a 16-member advisory committee and nine-member special committee.
All the leaders incorporated in the new committee are not involved in active politics and regarded as Awami League government sympathisers , sources at Hefajat said.
Yusuf Madani son of the former amir of Hefajat, Shah Ahmad Shafi was included in the new committee.
On April 25, the central committee of the Qawmi madrasa-based Hefajat-e-Islam was dissolved.
Babunagari and Jihadi were amir and secretary general respectively of the dissolved committee.
After several hours, a five-member convening committee of Hefajat was announced with Babunagari and Jihadi as its convener and member-secretary.
Hefajat-e Islam will announce today its new committee comprising of what insiders said would be the leaders sympathetic to the ruling Awami League. The previous committee was disbanded around one and a half months ago amid a government crackdown on Hefajat leaders following the islamist organisations's violence across the country that started over Indian Prime Minister