AL-backed panel claims SCBA polls were not one-sided

Staff Reporter :
The pro-Awami League white panel has claimed that the elections of the Bangladesh Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) were not one-sided.
The two-day long SCBA polls were held last week amid unprecedented
chaos, scuffles, police assaults, and stampedes. In a written statement at a press conference on Sunday, white panel candidate and current SCBA President Md Momtaz Uddin Fakir said that the lawyers voted spontaneously in the election, and the BNP-supported lawyers did not even announce a boycott.
Members of the executive committee supported by Awami League along with Secretary of the association Abdun Nur Dulal, were also present at the media briefing.
Momtaz Uddin blamed the BNP’s anti-democratic, anti-voting, anti-election motives, and the party-supported candidates Barrister AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon and Barrister Ruhul Quddus Kazal for the undesirable situation in the election.
The pro-Awami League lawyers’ group Bangabandhu Awami Ainjibi Parishad won all 14 posts of the association. However, BNP supporters abstained from voting in the election held on 15 and 16 March.