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Under the prudent leadership of former BAIRA president Mohd Noor Ali, Sammilita Oikya Parishad, led by the association’s former president Mohammed Abul Basher, has clinched a landslide victory in the elections to lead the new executive committee of the Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (BAIRA) for the next two years (2022-2024).
The Oikya Parishad secured 23 posts out of 27 while four others elected from the other panels.
Noor Ali, also the managing director of the Unique Group, was the Basher-led panel’s chief coordinator.
In an instant reaction, Noor Ali said that the election was held peacefully. “The voters cast their ballots in a peaceful atmosphere and elected the aspirants who they thought best for the respective posts.”
A press conference will be held at 3:00pm today to brief media about the panel’s reactions, and their future plan, he added.
He also thanked voters for their just judgment.
Sammilita Oikya Parishad leader Mohammed Abul Basher secured highest 506 votes, followed by Md Fakhrul Islam of the same panel bagged 483 votes, and Akbar Hussain Monju of the same panel bagged 468 votes, while Noman Chowdhury and Mizanur Rahman got 467 votes each.
The other elected candidates of the same panel are: Md Ali Haider Chowdhury, Reaz-Ul-Islam, Shameem Ahmed Chowdhury Noman, Md Abul Barakat Bhuiyan, Md Abu Zafar, Md Kamal Uddin Dilu, Shahadat Hossain, Md Tipu Sultan, Md Farid Ahamed, Mohammad Ashraf Uddin, Mostafa Mahmud, Md Belal Hossain Mazumder, Mohammad Musa Kalim, Kazi Muhammed Mofizur Rahman, Hoque Zahirul, Arifur Rahman, Rehana Parween, Mohammad Oli Ullah and Md Rafiqul Islam Patwary.
However, BAIRA Sammilita Ganatantrik Jote leader Ruhul Amin Shawpon bagged only 428 votes but failed to secure a position.
The results were announced in the early hours of Sunday while the vote counting started after being delayed by the authorities for more than two hours after the voting ended at 4:00pm on Saturday.
Earlier, as many as 969 votes were cast in the polls that started at 9:00am and continued till 4:00pm at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon Dhaka on Saturday.
The total number of voters was 1,042.
Law enforcement agencies, including police and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), were deployed to avert any untoward incident.
A total of 181 candidates from the three separate panels vied for 27 posts in the next committee.
According to the BAIRA website, the association has over 1,568 members.
To conduct the election, a three-member election commission, led by Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Commerce Mirazul Islam Ukil, was formed. The other two members of the commission were deputy secretaries of the same ministry Tania Islam and Md Abul Kalam Azad.
The election commission had declared the polls schedule in June.
