Khulna Bar executives

Staff Correspondent, Khulna
Advocate Sheikh Masud Hossain Rony of BNP-led four-party alliance and advocate Anisur Rahman Poplu of AL-backed 14-party alliance have been elected president and general secretary respectively of the 14-member new executive committee of Khulna District Bar Association. Eight hundred and seventy-seven out of 958 voters exercised their right of franchise in the annual election held from 9am to 3pm on Sunday at the auditorium of bar association. Results were announced at 8:45pm after completing counting of votes at 8pm by a four-member election committee headed by advocate Sheikh Yunus Ahmed. According to official results, the AL-led 14-party alliance panel captured nine out of 14 posts while the BNP-led four-party alliance won the remaining five posts in the election.