Ahsan Habib Nasim and MM Kamrul Hasan Rawnak were elected the president and the general secretary of the Actors Equity for 2022–25 term in the elections to the television artistes’ organisation held on Friday.
Chief election commissioner actor Khairul Alam Shabuj announced the results in the evening at Shilpakala Academy in Bangladesh capital Dhaka.
Ahsan polled 496 votes while his contestant Sahadat Hossain Nipu bagged 88 votes.
MM Kamrul Hasan Rawnak bagged 421 votes while his rival Alamgir Kabir Tutul got 163 votes.
The voting was held at the National Music, Dance and Recitation Centre of the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in Dhaka from 9:30am to 7:30pm with a break from 1:00pm to 2:00pm.
Anisur Rahman Milon, Selim Mahbub and Iqbal Babu were elected vice-president getting 398, 397 and 374 votes respectively.
The other office-bearers are joint general secretaries Naznin Hasan Chumki and Jamil Hossain, organising secretary Shazu Khadem, finance secretary Mohammad Noor A Alam, office secretary Sheik Merazul Islam, event secretary Rashed Mamunur Rahman, law and welfare secretary Urmila Srabanti Kar, publicity and
publication secretary Pran Roy and information and technology secretary Sujat Shimul.
Hafizur Rahman, Suchona Sikdar, Aynun Putul, Shams Sumon, Ashraful Alam Khan, Tanvir Mashud and Maznun Mizan were elected executive committee members.
Other election commissioners were Masum Aziz and Naresh Bhuiyan.
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