AL, BNP at loggerheads
A top Awami League leader has said they favour the transparent Supreme Court Bar Association election, while BNP alleged that "one-sided" announcement of the results by ruling party-backed lawyers was "terrible injustice".
AL Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif yesterday said the SCBA election issue could be better explained by the lawyers.
"We always favour a transparent election and the results would be accepted by all," Hanif told reporters in Kushtia, reports BSS.
He said relating BNP leader Khaleda Zia's case with Dhaka Bar Council election is a part of BNP's political ploy.
Earlier on Thursday, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir described the "one-sided" announcement of the disputed results of SCBA election by the pro-AL lawyers as a "terrible injustice". "The cadres of Awami League, who usurped power, broke the locked house at night in a terroristic manner and announced the results [of SCBA]," he said.
Speaking at an iftar party in Dhaka, he urged the lawyers to strongly protest the incident.
Earlier on Wednesday night, the results of SCBA election, that took place 41 days ago, was announced after scuffle and chaos broke between pro-AL and BNP lawyers, over the recounting of votes cast for the post of secretary, where the candidate from pro-BNP panel was leading.
In the results, AL-backed lawyers' panel Bangabandhu Awami Ainjibi Parishad won in seven posts including those of president and secretary and pro-BNP lawyers' panel-Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Oikya Panel won in the rest seven posts including those of assistant secretaries and treasurer.
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