SCBA demands re-election to Bar Council
The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), dominated by pro-BNP lawyers, yesterday demanded suspension of the results of recently held elections to Bangladesh Bar Council, and holding its re-election citing "unprecedented irregularities."
SCBA Secretary AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon urged the chief justice to appoint a judge to investigate the "unprecedented irregularities and unlawful activities" in the elections and take steps to prepare a correct voter-list for holding a re-election.
While addressing a briefing in the SCBA auditorium, he claimed a total of 1,342 SCBA lawyers could not cast votes and names of total 7,417 lawyers of Dhaka Bar Association were deleted from the voter list.
He claimed that many lawyers of different bars across the country could not cast their votes and if they had cast votes in a free and fair manner then pro-BNP lawyers' panel -- Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Oikya Panel -- would win all 14 posts in the Bar Council election.
As per unofficial results of the election held on August 26, pro-AL lawyers' panel --Sammilito Ainjibi Samannay Parishad -- secured 10 out of 14 executive member posts and Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Oikya Panel bagged the rest.
Contacted, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam denied the allegations made by the SCBA secretary.
He said the election to the Bar Council was held in a free and fair manner and there was no irregularity in it.
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