UNB, Dhaka :
The two-day staggered annual election to the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) to elect its 14-member executive committee for 2015-16 concluded on Monday.
Closing the polls, M Harun-or-Rashid, convener of the seven-member election sub-committee, told reporters that a total of 3529 voters out of 4362 cast their votes.
“The vote counting began at 9 pm and the results might be announced before the daybreak,” he said.
Thirty-one candidates contested the election to the apex court bar of the country.
Virtually, two panels contested the SCBA election. The panels are Sammilita Ainjibi Samannay Parishad (SASP), backed by the ruling Awami League-led 14 party alliance and Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Oikya Panel (JAOP) which is backed by the BNP-Jamaat-e-Islami-led 20-party alliance. Outgoing SCBA president Khandker Mahbub Hossain, also BNP chairperson’ s adviser, and secretary AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon, also a BNP joint
secretary general, contested the polls to retain their positions against Yusuf Hossain Humayun, a member of Awami League advisory council, and M Momtaz Uddin Ahmed Mehdi, a former SCBA secretary.
The two-day staggered annual election to the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) to elect its 14-member executive committee for 2015-16 concluded on Monday.
Closing the polls, M Harun-or-Rashid, convener of the seven-member election sub-committee, told reporters that a total of 3529 voters out of 4362 cast their votes.
“The vote counting began at 9 pm and the results might be announced before the daybreak,” he said.
Thirty-one candidates contested the election to the apex court bar of the country.
Virtually, two panels contested the SCBA election. The panels are Sammilita Ainjibi Samannay Parishad (SASP), backed by the ruling Awami League-led 14 party alliance and Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Oikya Panel (JAOP) which is backed by the BNP-Jamaat-e-Islami-led 20-party alliance. Outgoing SCBA president Khandker Mahbub Hossain, also BNP chairperson’ s adviser, and secretary AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon, also a BNP joint
secretary general, contested the polls to retain their positions against Yusuf Hossain Humayun, a member of Awami League advisory council, and M Momtaz Uddin Ahmed Mehdi, a former SCBA secretary.
