After days of high drama replete with altercations, scuffles, and chaos on the premises of the nations highest court, the results of the Supreme Court Bar Association election have finally been declared.
According to the official results, BNP-backed candidate AM Mahbub Uddin Khokan has won the president post while the Awami League supported candidate Shah Monjurul Haque has clinched the secretary post.
AL supported panel has got nine posts, including those of the secretary, five office- bearers and three executive members, in the violence-hit election to Supreme Court Bar Association while BNP supported panel has obtained four posts, including those the president and three executive members, Abul Khair, convener of the election sub-committee, announced the results in the early hours of Sunday after the election on Wednesday and Thursday.
Khokan won the presidential race with 2,622 votes, edging out his closest rival, Abu Saeed Sagar, who received 2,539 votes.
Secretary Monjurul Hoque got 3,319 votes, significantly ahead of the nearest rival and former SCBA secretary Ruhul Quddus Kajal from the Blue Panel, who secured 1,702 votes.
Kajal, two-time former secretary of the association, was arrested from his Tophkhana law chamber when the vote counting resumed amid tight security on Saturday afternoon.
