Uncertainty still looms large over the biennial elections of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association as one of the contesting forums has decided to boycott the polls on the plea of incomplete and flawed voters' list.
The boycotting forum led by former BGMEA president Anwar-Ul-Alam Chowdhury Parvez sought the prime minister's intervention in holding free and fair election.
The outgoing BGMEA president Abdus Salam Murshedy, however, said the election would be held as scheduled on March 20.
'The election board is fully prepared to hold the election on March 20. All proceedings are done. The board has confirmed me,' Murshedy told UNB over phone on Friday.
Earlier, Murshedy publicly said the elections for the organisation, scheduled for March 20, would not be deferred anyway. The forum headed by Parvez Friday issued an appeal to the prime minister through national dailies seeking the PM's intervention to ensure a fair voters' list and holding election after 10 days of publishing the voters' list.
He claimed March 20 election for 2011-2012 would be a farce if the voters' list was not complete and flawless.
Forum and Sammilito Parishad led by Shafiul Islam Mohiuddin, the second vice-president of the incumbent committee reached an agreement on February 19 this year and decided to prepare a flawless voters' list.
Earlier, the BGMEA board postponed its election for undisclosed reasons.
The election was scheduled to be held on February 24 to elect its office-bearers for 2011-12. A total of 3,259 voters are scheduled to elect 27 directors. According to the guideline, the elected directors will select one president and four vice-presidents to run the association for two years.
Among the vice-presidents, one is elected from Chittagong region and others from Dhaka region.
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