SCBA polls start on Sunday

The two-day annual election to Supreme Court Bar Association's (SCBA) 14 executive posts, including those of president and secretary, will begin in the bar building in the capital on Sunday.

The polling will start at 10:00am and continue till 5:00pm with a one-hour lunch break. Some 4,362 lawyers are enlisted to exercise their voting rights.

The main contestants are the panels of ruling Awami League backed Sammilito Ainjibi Shomonnoy Parishad (SASP) and BNP-Jamaat-e-Islami backed Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Oikkya Panel (JAOP), said SCBA sources.

AL presidium member Yusuf Hossain of SASP, BNP chairperson's adviser and incumbent SCBA President Khandker Mahbub Hossain of JAOP, and independent candidates Obaidul Haque Pirjada and Eunus Ali Akond are contesting for the post of president.

Former SCBA secretary Momtazuddin Ahmed Mehedi of SASP and incumbent SCBA Secretary AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon of JAOP are vying for the secretary post.