{"id":28067,"date":"2016-10-30T01:36:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T01:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=28067"},"modified":"2016-10-31T01:03:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T01:03:36","slug":"absolute-victory-of-kamal-ruhul-panel-in-the-bangladesh-society-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=28067","title":{"rendered":"Absolute victory of Kamal-Ruhul panel in the Bangladesh Society election"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"img_3017\"<\/strong>bornomalanews (New York) : Kamal-Ruhul panel has reaped its expected victory in the Bangladesh Society election in New York last week. In the election, of the largest-ever organization of the Bangladeshis in the world abroad, held on October 23, the panel comprising Kamal Ahmed and Ruhul Amin Siddiqui, respectively former president and former treasurer of the organization achieved absolute majority to serve the Bangladeshi expatriate community for the next two years. Of the 19 executive committee positions, they won a total of 17 positions including the positions of president and general secretary.<\/p>\n

For the second time, Kamal Ahmed has been elected as president of the society, while Ruhul Amin Siddiqui has been declared a general secretary. Kamal Ahmed has defeated the running pr\"14713554_1355800261119296_260811453663242413_n\"esident Azmal Hossain Kunu by a staggering margin of 978 votes. Kamal Ahmed secured 5744 votes, while Azmal Kunu bagged 3766 votes. As an independent candidate for presidency, Osman Choudhury saw 307 votes coming in his direction.<\/p>\n

In the general secretary position, \u00a0Ruhul Amin defeated Kazi Azam, former organizing \u00a0secretary of the society and former president of the Chittagong Association of USA, by 612 votes. \u00a0Ruhul secured 5585 votes while Azam netted 4972 votes. The current general secretary Abdur Rahim Hawlader secured the position of senior assistant general secretary, bagging 5481 votes. Shah Newaz, senior vice president of Jackson Heights Business Association (JBB), trailed behind Rahim with 5042 votes.<\/p>\n

Record high in the history of the Bangladesh Society, a total of 18,551 members were registered as voters. Of them, 11,157 exercised their voting right. Votes were cast on Sunday from 9am thru 9pm in 5 voting centers of Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx. Despite an initial mess-up in vote counting by the Election Commission, the election went on with no issues.<\/p>\n

With votes counted in 5 centers, Syed Tipu Sultan, chairman of election commission, made the unofficial announcement of the result from the Gulshan Terrace center in Woodside. During this time, three presidential candidates, election commission members M A Hakim, Anwar Hossain, Tapan Zaman, Yunus Sarkar, presiding officer Saif Azad, candidates of the two contesting panels and their supporters were present there.<\/p>\n

Number of votes secured by the candidates: <\/strong>Kamal Ahmed, elected as the president of the Society for the next 2 years, secured 5744 votes, Azmal Hossain Kunu, his nearest rival, secured 4766 votes, Osman Choudhury, independent candidate for the presidential position, secured 5584 votes, Kazi Shakhawat Hossain, his sole rival, secured 4972 votes. Abdur Rahi\"img_2861\"m Hawlader, senior assistant president, \u00a0secured 5481 votes. Shah Newaz, another candidate for this position, secured 5042 votes. Abul Kaleq Khayer, in the position of vice president, secured 5643 votes, while Shafi Alam Lal, a losing candidate in this position, secured 4732 votes. Sayed M K Zaman was elected as assistant general secretary by securing 5244 votes. Mofizul Islam Bhuiyan, the candidate coming second to him secured 4730 votes. In the position of treasury, Mohammad Ali secured 5641 votes while Rahim Nishan, his rival, secured 4572 votes. In the organizational secretary position, Abul Kalam Bhuiyan secured 5474 votes, while his rival Rafiqul Islam Dalim secured 4750 votes. In the position of cultural secretary, Monika Roy secured 5592 votes, while her rival Selim Ibrahim secured 4686 votes. In the position of secretary of publicity, journalist Rizu Mohammad secured 5158 votes, while his rival Sirajul H\"img_2987\"aque Jamal secured 5106 votes. In the position of secretary of social welfare, Nader A Ayub secured 5527 votes, with his rival Tipu Khan securing 4734 votes. In the position of literary secretary, Nasir Uddin Ahmed secured 5363 votes, while his rival Sheikh Haidar Ali secured 4798 votes. In the position of secretary of sports, Nowshed Hossain secured 5369, while his rival Hossain Emily secured 4872 votes. In the position of secretary of secretary of school and education, Ahsan Habib secured 5439 votes, while his rival Wahid Kazi Elin secured 4710 votes. Farhana Choudhury, Moin Uddin Mahbub, Azad Bakir, Mohammad Sadi Mintu, Abul Kashem Choudhury, and Sarwar Khan Babu were elected in 6 positions of the executive committee by securing 5555, 5418, 5297, 5276, 5102, and 5043 votes respectively. The defeated candidates in the member positions are Monirul Islam (5027) Dr. Shahnaz (5021), Kazi Tofael Islam (4663), Jashim Uddin (4532), Ashraf Ali Liton (4410) and Khayer Akand (4292).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

bornomalanews (New York) : Kamal-Ruhul panel has reaped its expected victory in the Bangladesh Society election in New York last week. In the election, of the largest-ever organization of the Bangladeshis in the world abroad, held on October 23, the panel comprising Kamal Ahmed and Ruhul Amin Siddiqui, respectively former president and former treasurer of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":28068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45,44,2,5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\t\n