AL-backed panel sweeps in Dhaka Bar Association elections

Awami League-backed Sammilito Ainjibi Samonnay Parishad has won a landslide victory in the Dhaka Bar Association elections for the year 2022-2023.

Sammilito Ainjibi Samonnay Parishad won 17 posts, including president and general secretary, while BNP-backed Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Oikkya Panel got six posts, including library secretary, in the elections.

Advocate Mahbubur Rahman and Md Firojur Rahman Monto have been elected president and general secretary from the Sammilito Ainjibi Samonnay Parishad respectively.

Mahbubur Rahman got 7,026 votes while his rival candidate Md Khorshed Mia Alam got 4,051 votes. Md Firojur Rahman Monto bagged 6,058 votes while his rival candidate Sayed Nazrul Islam had 4,501 votes.

The other winners from the ruling party-backed White Panel are two vice-presidents, two assistant general secretaries, treasurer, cultural secretary, office secretary, sports secretary and seven executive members while other winners from BNP-backed Blue Panel are library secretary and social welfare secretary and four executive members.

The election commission counted the votes on Friday which took over 12 hours and the commission declared the result at 9:30 am today.

The two-day annual election of Dhaka Bar Association for the year 2022-2023 was held on February 23 and 24 where 11,285 voters, out of 19,847, cast their votes.

A committee led by Chief Election Commissioner Advocate Abdullah Abu conducted the election.