RAJSHAHI, March 29, 2019 (BSS)- Pro-Awami League candidates have clinched landslide victory defeating the BNP-Jamaat supported ones in Rajshahi Advocate Bar Association election held here on Thursday.
The Awami League and left leaning supported Combined Lawyers Coordinated panel grabbed twenty posts including president and general secretary out of total 21 posts while the panel of Jatiyatabadi Lawyers United Council got only one executive member post.
Chief Election Commissioner of the election Advocate Sheikh Jahangir Alam declared the result last midnight.
Advocates Lokeman Ali and Enamul Haque were elected president and general secretary for the third consecutive term respectively.
The other office-bearers are: Sunirmal Shaha, Syeda Morjina Khatun and Entajul Haque Babu (Vice-president), Siraji Shwakat Sheleheen and Sazeman Ali (Joint-Secretaries), Akhtarul Alam Babu (Accounts), Muhammad Ali (Library), Helal Ahmed (Audit), Jalal Uddin (Press and Information), Momtaj Khanom (Magazine and Culture) and Asir Uddin, Shafiqul Islam, Ahsan Habib, Mijanur Rahman Badsha, Imam Hassan, Sheikh Tozammel Ahmed, Sadiqul Islam, Suma Khatun and Monwara Begum (Members). In two panels, forty-two candidates contested in the election for the 21 post. A total of 541 out of total 578 voters exercised their right of franchise in the election held from 9 am to 5 pm.