DHAKA, March 15, 2019 (BSS) – Pro-Awami League White Panel bagged six
posts including president, while pro-BNP-Jamaat Blue Panel clinching eight
including general secretary in Supreme Court Bar Association election.
AM Amin Uddin of White Panel was declared winner as president with 3,225
votes, while his closest rival AJ Mohammad Ali of Blue Panel only managed to
get 2,443 votes.
AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon of Blue Panel was elected general secretary for
the seventh consecutive time with 3,056 votes, defeating White Panel’s Abdun
Noor Dulal, who gave Khokon a good fight with 2,649 votes.
Abdul Baten of Blue Panel and Md Jasim Uddin of White Panel were elected
vice-presidents with 2,856 and 2,849 votes respectively. The post of
treasurer went to Blue Panel with Imam Hossain bagging 2,947 votes.
Qazi Shamsul Hasan Shuvo of White Panel got 2,729 votes and Sharif U
Ahammed of Blue Panel got 2,722 votes, becoming two assistant secretaries for
the 2019-20 tenure.
White Panel’s Afifa Afroz Rani, Chanchal Kumar Biswas, Md Shamim Sardar
and Blue Panel’s Qazi Akhter Hossain, Rashida Alim Oishy, Mohammad Osman
Chowdhury and Syeda Shahin Ara Laili were declared winners as members of the
SC Bar Association.
The voting was held peacefully and in a festive mood on March 13and 14.
Voters cast their ballots through 44 polling booths. A total of 5,821 voters
out of 7,825 exercised their franchise in the two-day polls.
Supreme Court Bar superintendant Nimesh Chandra Das said a total of 33
candidates took part in the election against 14 posts. Of them, seven were
secretarial posts and seven executive members, he added.
Senior lawyer AY Moshiuzzaman conducted the poll as chief election
commissioner.