Star ’s Refayet ERF president, TBS’s Kashem gen secy

Mohammad Refayet Ullah Mirdha, senior reporter of The Daily  Star, was elected as the president of the Economic Reporters' Forum  (ERF) yesterday for a two-year term.

He got 91 votes out of a total of 200 cast by the members of the country's largest platform for financial journalists.

Abul  Kashem, special correspondent of The Business Standard, was elected  general secretary, collecting 111 votes, while Salahuddin Bablu,  business editor of SA TV, was elected as vice president, receiving 104  votes.

Md Mizanur Rahman of the Daily Observer won the election in  the post of assistant general secretary and Rahim Sheikh as finance  secretary.

Badiul Alam, Mohammad Farhad Hossain Talukder, Mohammed Syful Islam, and Shah Alam Nur were elected members of the ERF.

Shaukat  Mahmood, a former president of Jatiya Press Club; Monjurul Ahsan  Bulbul, chief editor of TV Today; and Moniruzzaman Tipu, secretary  general of Bangladesh Public Relations Association, oversaw the election  as the chairman and members.