MM Rahmatullah: Mohammed Mojibur Rahman Bhuiyan Manju has been elected chairman of the Amar Bangladesh Party (AB Party) by a huge margin in the first national council of the party. Barrister Asaduzzaman Fuad has been elected unopposed as general secretary. They will serve for the next three years.
The party’s internal election commission announced the election results at the first national council of the AB Party at Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital on Saturday. The voting for the post of AB Party chairman was held at Suhrawardy Udyan from 9 am to 9 pm on Friday. Councilors from all over the country voted there. Expatriate and sick councilors voted online.
Three candidates are contesting for the post of AB Party chairman. They are the party’s founding convener AFM Solaiman Chowdhury, founding member secretary Mohammed Mojibur Rahman Bhuiyan Manju and joint convener Colonel (retd) Didarul Alam. Out of a total of 2,806 voters, 1,689 voted. 45 votes were cancelled out of these.
Mohammed Mojibur Rahman Bhuiyan Manju was elected as the chairman with 1,400 votes. His rival AFM Solaiman Chowdhury got 211 votes and Didarul Alam got 33 votes.
Earlier, after the chairman’s vote on Friday, the general secretary’s election was held at night. There were 21 members of the AB Party’s executive committee elected at the end of last month. However, Barrister Asaduzzaman Fuad was elected unopposed as there was no other candidate for the general secretary’s post.
Along with the announcement of the results for the chairman and secretary posts, the names of 21 executive council members were also announced.
The AB Party’s national council was inaugurated by the family members and injured persons of the 1971 Great Liberation War and the July Uprising. BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and leaders of various political parties were present at the event.
