SCBA Elections: AL-backed candidates win 8 posts, pro-BNP 6

Ruling Awami League-backed lawyers have won eight out of 14 posts including that of the president in Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) elections held on Wednesday and Thursday.

Senior lawyer and former law minister Abdul Matin Khasru, MP, has been elected president of the prime bar association of the country.

Pro-BNP lawyers have secured the rest six posts including that of the secretary. Md Ruhul Quddus Kazal has been reelected SCBA secretary.

The election results were announced last night after the two-day voting ended on March 11. About 5,486 lawyers out of the total 7,719 cast their votes in the capital's SCBA auditorium. Pro-AL lawyers Muhammad Shafique Ullah, Dr Md Iqbal Karim and Safayet Sultana Rumi have been elected vice president, treasurer and assistant secretary respectively while Mintu Kumar Mondal, Muntasir Uddin Ahmed, ABM Shibly Salekin, and Mahfuzur Rahman executive members.

The five others elected from BNP-backed panel are Jalal Uddin (vice president), Mahmud Hasan (assistant secretary), and Parvin Kawser Munni, Redwan Ahmed Runjib and Md Iftekharul Islam (executive members), Barrister Saumitra Sardar, a Supreme Court lawyer and SCBA election commission member, told The Daily Star yesterday.