BSS-47 Farida, Ilias elected president, general sec of Jatiya Press Club

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Farida, Ilias elected president, general sec of Jatiya Press Club

DHAKA, Dec 31, 2020 (BSS) – Farida Yasmin of the Daily Ittefaq and Ilias Khan of the Daily Amar Desh have been elected president and general secretary of the Jatiya Press Club (JPC) respectively for the next two years.

Farida was elected president (581 votes) beating her rival Kamal Uddin Sabuj (395) while Ilias was elected general secretary (566) beating his rival Omar Faruque (393).

The results of the JPC executive committee election were announced around 8.50pm.

Hasan Hafiz of the Amader Natun Somoy was elected senior vice present (413) while Rezwanul Haque Raza of Maasranga Television was elected the vice present (615).

The other office-bearers of the 17-member executive committee of the JPC are joint secretaries Mainul Alam (577) and Md Ashraf Ali (395), Treasurer Shahed Chowdhury (706) and 10 members – Ayub Bhuiyan (544), Rezanur Rahman (474), Kazi Rawnak Hossain (455), Zahiduzzaman Faruque (443), Shahnaz Begum Poli (430), Syed Abdal Ahmed (421), Shahnaj Siddiqui Soma (420), Bhanu Ranjan Chakrabarty (411), Rehman Mustafiz (389) and Bakhtiar Rana (368).

Earlier, the voting of the election was held from 9 am to 5 pm without any break.

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