Saiful-Farida panel won the election to the executive committee of the National Press Club on Tuesday, bagging 13 posts out of 17.
Saiful Alam of the Daily Jugantar has been elected president (621 votes), while Farida Yasmin of the Daily Ittefaq (569) general secretary, beating their nearest rivals Shawkat Mahmud (431) and Ilias Khan (406) respectively, reports UNB.
Senior journalist Omar Farroque was elected senior vice president (442) while Azizul Islam Bhuiyan vice president (554).
The other office-bearers of the 17-member JPC executive committee are Joint Secretaries Shahed Chowdhury (599) and Mainul Alam, (554), Treasurer Shaymal Dutta (593), while 10 members are Kuddus Afrad (515), Shahmsuddin Ahmed Charu (507), Rezwanul Haque Raza (484), Shahnaz Begum ((462), Sanaul Haque (442), Kalyan Saha (439), Jahiduzzaman Farroque (429), Syed Abdal Ahmed (417), Bakhtiar Rana (401) and Hasan Arefin (391).
Earlier, voting in the National Press Club election was held from 9:00am to 5:00pm without any break.
