Sylhet lawyers’ association election held

Sylhet Bureau :

Ashok Purkayastha and Golam Yahiya Chowdhury were re-elected president and general secretary respectively of the Sylhet District Lawyers’ Association for 2024. The bar association election commissioner, Md Abdur Rahman Chowdhury, announced the results of the polls at about 6:00am on Friday after completion of counting of the votes, the association sources said.
The annual polls of the association continued without any break between 10:00am and 4:00pm on Thursday.
The election commissioner told that 1,429 out of total 1,789 voters cast their votes in the polls to elect the office bearers of the 25-member executive committee of the association.
Ashok got 621 votes while his nearest contestant Shamsul Haque bagged 571 votes for the top position.