Pro-AL panel sweeps Dhaka Bar Association polls

Pro-Awami League lawyers have clinched 18 out of the 27 positions in elections to the Dhaka Bar Association, including that of president and general secretary.

The AL white panel’s Gazi Md Shah Alam has been elected as the president and Md Asaduzzaman Khan (Rochi) as general secretary for the session 2019-20.

The blue panel of pro-BNP-Jamaat however managed to bag the rest nine posts.

Advocate Mokhlesur Rahman Badal, chief election commissioner of the bar association, on Friday night announced the results of the two-day elections held on February 27 and March 7.

The winning members of the White Panel include Md Jahangir Hossain Dulal as Vice-President, Mohammad Jahangir Alam Mollah as Senior Assistant General Secretary, Mohammad Omar Faruk Asif as Assistant General Secretary and Abdul Jalil Afrad (Kabir) as Treasurer.

The winning members of the Blue Panel include Abdus Salam Dewan as senior vice president, Md Ziaul Haque Zia as library secretary and Morsheda Khatun Shilpy as cultural affairs secretary.

A total of 9,364 members out of the total 17,897 eligible voters exercised their franchise in the two-day polls.