Staff Reporter :
Mujibur Rahman Manju has been elected Chairman by a huge margin in the first national council of Amar Bangladesh Party (AB Party), while Barrister Asaduzzaman Fuad General Secretary for the next three years.
They were elected in the party’s first National Council held at the capital’s Suhrawardy Udyan on Saturday, where the council was inaugurated by the family members and injured veterans of the 1971 Liberation War and the July Mass Uprising.
The election was held on Friday from 9am to 9pm with votes cast by the party’s councillors from across the country.
The councillors who were abroad or unable to attend due to illness cast their votes online.
The election results were announced by the party’s Internal Election Commissioner Akhtarul Alam during the National Council session on Saturday afternoon.
Monju, who was previously the Secretary General of the party, won with a significant margin, securing 1,400 votes in the election.
His closest competitor, AFM Solaiman Chowdhury, bagged only 211 votes, while Didarul Alam received 33 votes respectively.
Out of a total of 2,806 voters, 1,689 councillors cast their votes. Out of these, 45 votes were cancelled.
In addition, the names of a 21-member new Executive Committee of the AB Party were also announced for a three-year term. However, Asaduzzaman Fuad was elected unopposed as there was no other candidate for the post of General Secretary.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and leaders of various political parties were present at the programme.
