Pro-AL panel sweeps Dhaka bar polls

Awami League-backed lawyers' panel has won a landslide victory in the Dhaka Bar Association elections, bagging 21 posts out of 27.

The AL white panel's Md Saidur Rahman Manik has been elected as the president and Md Ayubur Rahman as general secretary for the session 2016-17.

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

Md Shah Alam Khan, chief election commissioner of the bar association, yesterday announced the results of the two-day elections held on February 24 and 25. The winning candidates from the white panel are Abu Barak Forhad (vice-president), Abdus Salam Khan (senior assistant general secretary), Md Shahadat Hossain Bhuiyan (assistant general secretary), Ali Ahmed (library affairs secretary), Lucky Akhter (cultural affairs secretary), Abdul Hye Mamun (office secretary) and Md Baharul Alam (sports affairs secretary).

On the other hand, from the blue panel Afroza Begum Shelley has been elected as senior vice-president, Abu Bakar Siddiqui as treasurer and Md Shafiqul Islam as social welfare affairs secretary.

Among the 15 members' posts, white panel bagged 12 and blue panel got three.