Rural News Online Desk:
The voting for the biennial elections of the National Press Club Management Committee is going on on Saturday (December 31) from 9 am to 5 pm. In this election, a total of 1,218 voters are electing their new leadership for the next two years.
Journalists known as journalists who are supporters of the liberation war and journalists known as BNP-Jamaatpanthi are contesting the election divided into two full panels and a partial panel.
50 candidates for the post of 17 members of the Executive Committee including the President-General Secretary. The 5-member election management committee is serving as the chairman of the technician Mustafa Jabbar, while the other members are Md. Mustafa-e-Jameel, Zafar Iqbal, Shah Alamgir and Md. Nasir Uddin.
From a single panel of journalists who support the liberation war, the current president Muhammad Shafiqur Rahman is contesting for the post of president and Farida Yitasmin is contesting for the post of general secretary. Farida Itasmin is a three-time elected member of the Press Club Management Committee. This is the first time in the history of the National Press Club that a woman candidate is contesting for the post of general secretary, she was also the first woman joint editor in the last election of the press club.
BNP - A full panel candidate is contesting for the post of president MA Aziz and general secretary Kader Gani Chowdhury from the panel of Jamaat. A full panel is contested for the post of president Khandkar Monirul Alam. However, the BNP leader is being claimed to have received the nomination paper of the general secretary candidate Abdur Rahman Khan.