BSS, Dhaka :Balloting in the two-day polls to the Supreme Court (SC) Bar Association has ended yesterday afternoon.”A total of 3,921 voters out of the 5,028 members to cast their ballots exercised their voting rights,” Barrister Ragib Rouf Chowdhury told newsmen at around 5.40 pm. Voters casted their ballots through 43 booths set up at the Shaheed Shafiur Rahman Auditorium at the Supreme Court Bar Association.A seven-member sub-committee is looking after the whole voting affairs with advocate Harunur Rashid as its convener. A total of 32 candidates are vying for seven secretarial posts and seven executive body members. Of these 32, three are vying for the post of president, four for vice-president, four for secretary, two for treasurer, five for assistant secretary and 14 for members.Pro-Awami League Sammilita Ainjibi Samannay Parishad is contesting, under White Panel, with senior jurists Yusuf Hossain Humayun and Azhar Ullah Bhuiyan for the posts of president and general secretary.Pro-BNP-Jamaat candidates Joynul Abedin and Barrister AM Mahbub Uddin Khokan, under Blue Panel, are contesting for the posts of president and general secretary.
