The Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Oikya Panel, backed by the BNP-Jamaat coalition, has overwhelmingly won the election to the Dhaka Bar Association.
The BNP-Jamaat-backed blue panel won 20 of the 25 posts, while the rest went to the Awami League-backed white panel.
The top posts including those of the president and the general secretary were won by the blue panel; while among the 10 posts of office bearers, the Awami League-backed white panel won only the posts of the senior vice-president and treasurer.
BNP central committee’s Religious Affairs Secretary advocate Masud Ahmed Talukder was elected the president, bagging 4,562 votes, 230 votes more than his nearest contender – white panel’s Md Saidur Rahman Manik.
Md Omar Faruq Faruqui of the blue panel was elected general secretary with 4,643 votes, 586 votes more than white panel’s Ayubur Rahman.
Of the 15 posts of executive members, BNP-Jamaat-backed lawyers won 12; the Awami League-backed lawyers won the rest.
SM Altaf Hossain, chief election commissioner for the Dhaka Bar Association, announced the results yesterday.
The voting was held throughout Wednesday and Thursday. The total number of voters was 15,372; of them, 9,092 cast their ballots.
Blue panel’s Harun Rashid Khan has been elected the vice-president, Hafizur Rahman Hafiz the senior assistant general secretary, Taherul Islam Tauhid the assistant general secretary, Majedur Rahman Mamun the library secretary, Aklima Akter Alo the cultural secretary and Sheikh Alauddin was elected the office secretary.
White panel’s Mosharraf Hossain and Makbul Hossain have been elected senior vice-president and treasurer respectively.