FBCCI elections held peacefully

The elections for the new board members of the FBCCI (2023-25) were on Monday held peacefully. FBCCI Election Board Chairman A Matin Chowdhury said about 89 percent of the votes have been cast.

He told reporters this after the election of the board of directors of BFCCI. Around 1746 votes out of 1954 have been cast, and no fake voter is identified.

The elections were held to elect 23 directors on Monday at the Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) in the capital.

The chairman of the Election Board said that the allegation of fake voting is not true. “We checked to confirm each voter’s name and NID card before polling. Hence there is no possibility of fake votes,” he pointed out.

He said, “An order of the High Court came during the election. I stayed it and sent it to the Supreme Court. Keeping that in force, we conducted the election, according to the law.”

Out of the total 80 directors of the FBCCI Board of Directors, as per the constitution, 17 each from the Chamber and Association groups have already been nominated as a total of 34 directors.

Apart from this, there are 23 chamber group members and 23 posts from sector-based associations, but the candidates of the chamber group were elected unopposed as 23 nomination papers were submitted against the 23 posts of the chamber group.

49 candidates are contesting as candidates against 23 posts of sector-wise association groups. Out of this, 23 candidates are contesting as director candidates from the panel of trade unions, 23 from the combined trade union panel, and 3 are contesting as independent candidates.

This year held an election to maintain a formality as around 57 directors are already elected as unopposed. Earlier in two consecutive tenures no elections were held as the business leader select the board of directors and president of FBCCI in section by mutual understanding.