The Sammilito Baboshayee Parishad panel clinched 15 posts of directors while Baboshayee Oikko Parishad bagged 8 posts in the election of the association group of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI).
The election took place on Monday at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) to elect the fresh leadership of the association for the 2023-25 tenure, read a press release.
After a long counting of the votes, FBCCI Election Board Chairman (2023-25) A Matin Chowdhury announced the results of the country's apex trade body around 3:30am Tuesday.
Some 1,746 out of the 1,954 voters cast their votes with a turnout of 89.35 per cent.
The voting started at 9:30am and ended at 4:30pm Monday without any break.
Among the director aspirants of the FBCCI, Hazi Mohammad Enayetullah of Sammilito Baboshayee Parishad Panel got the highest number of 1,294 votes followed by BM Shoaib with 1,279 votes, Mir Nizam Uddin Ahmed with 1,257 votes, Sirazul Islam with 1,246 votes, Md Shahidul Haque Mollah with 1,215 votes, Nizam Uddin Rajesh with 1,191 votes, Md Muntakim Ashraf with 1,175 votes, Rakibul Alam Dipu with 992 votes, Mohammad Aftab Javed with 966 votes, Md Ishakul Hossain Sweet with 891 votes, Amir Hossain Nurani with 852 votes, Syed Md Bokhtiar with 840 votes, Tapan Kumar Majumder with 835 votes, Salma Hossain Ash with 831 votes and Hazi Md Abul Hashem with 815 votes.
On the other hand, out of the Baboshayee Oikko Parishad Panel, Kawser Ahmed bagged 1,030 votes followed by Khandaker Ruhul Amin 988 votes, Md Amin Helaly 911 votes, Md Niaz Ali Chisti 909 votes, Abu Motaleb 899 votes, Shomi Kaiser 852 votes, Rashedul Hossain Chowdhury Roni 837 votes and Hafez Harun Paan 813 votes.
On August 2, the elected directors will choose the president, a senior vice president and six vice presidents.
Mahbubul Alam, the representative of the Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry, led the Baboshayee Oikko Parishad panel while Mir Nizam Uddin Ahmed led the Sammilito Baboshayee Parishad panel.
This year the election was held only in the association group for 23 posts of directors as the 23 directors for chamber group were elected unopposed earlier.
In the association group, 49 candidates contested for 23 posts of directors.
Of the 49 candidates, 23 came from each of the two panels and three were independent candidates.
This year the president for the FBCCI will be picked up from the chamber group as per the rules of the organisation.
Mahbubul Alam has contested from the chamber group. So, he will be the next president of the FBCCI.
Earlier on Monday just after the FBCCI election, A Matin Chowdhury in a media briefing said, "The election was held in a free, fair manner and festive mood much to the satisfaction of the election board. The voters maintained their discipline and thus cast their votes while there were no complain and grievances,"
Two other election board members Md Shamsul Alam and KMN Manjurul Hoque were present at the briefing.
Matin said out of the total valid voters of 1,954, some 1,746 voters cast their votes with a turnout of 89.35 per cent.
"On behalf of our election board, our efforts were to hold the election in a free, fair and proper manner. We didn't receive any complain from the voters or candidates regarding the election," he added.
The election board chairman also informed that the voters this time were allowed to cast their votes subject to matching of their NID cards, pictures and signatures in line with the voter list. "So, there was no incident of fake vote."
