The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Former BGMEA president Annisul Huq led panel has defeated Rouf Chowdhury's panel with a big margin victory in the biennial election of the FBCCI governing body held Monday.

The result, announced early Tuesday, revealed that Annisul's panel clinched 19 posts out of 24 while Rouf bagged the rest.

Annisul's group own 11 posts out of 12 in the chamber group and 8 out of 12 in the association group.

On Monday vote was taken from 9:00 am to 4:30pm to elect 12 directors each from chamber and association groups. Out of 1551 voters 1441 have exercised their voting rights. 306 voters from chamber group and 1,135 voters from association group cast their votes.

Earlier, 14 directors-seven from seven chambers and another seven from seven associations-had been nominated.

All 38 directors will elect the president and the vice presidents Wednesday. Annisul Huq and Rouf Chowdhury are in the presidential race.

FBCCI administrator Syed Manzur Elahi expressed his gratitude to all for cooperating with him to held the election by the set deadline of the government. "I am glad we held the election by the deadline."

Annisul Huq told newsmen that his organisation will take necessary steps to accelerate economy of the country.

The elected directors from Chamber Group includes: Golam Dastgir Gazi, Abul Kashem Ahmed, Rajjab Sharif, Bazlur Rahman, Kohinoor Islam, Kamaluddin Ahmed, Shamsul Alam, Bijoy Kumar Kejriwal, Serajul Haque, Aminu Bari, Alhaj Shamsul Haque and Mahbub Islam Runu.

Directors elected form Association Group includes: Obaidur Rahman, Shafquat Haider, Farukul Islam Shova, Jashim Uddin, Mohammed Jalal Uddin, Anwar Hossain, M A Rouf Chowdhury, Abdul Haque, Abu Alam Chowdhury, Mir Nizam Uddin Ahmed, Alhaj Mohammad Balayet Hossain and Dilder Ahmed.