Dhaka – Former General Secretary of the ad-hoc committee of Bangladesh Athletics Federation Advocate Abdur Rakib Montu-led panel swept the Athletics Federation election bagging all the posts on Saturday. Montu was selected general secretary beating former general secretary Mohammad Shah Alam by 96-19 votes in the election while another candidate Jahangirnagar University councilor SM Shadat Hossain Sohel got two votes only. Returning officer and Legal Affairs Officer of National Sports Council (NSC) SM Kabirul Hasan said 117 councillors, out of total 120, exercised their voting rights from 10 am to 3 pm peacefully at the National Sports Council (old building) in Purana Paltan. The Montu-led panel has got absolute majority clinching all the 28 posts of the federation executive committee, including five vice-presidents, one general secretary, two joint secretaries, one treasurer, and 19 members. Newly elected office bears are (All from Faruk-Montu Panel). Five elected vice-presidents are Advocate Nuruddin Chowdhury Nayon (111), Md Furukul Islam (96), Md Jayedul Alam, (93), SM Murtoza Rashidi Dara (93) and Md Tofazzal Hossain (80). Two joint secretaries are Farid Khan Chowdhury (95) and Md Mizanur Rahman (80), Treasurer Md Jamal Hossan (88). Nineteen EC members are Md Najir Ahmed Mallick (110), Md Saeed Hasan Loban (109), Md Aminul Islam (109), Nazimul Haque Nazim (107), Md Rafiqullah Aktar Milon (107), Md Shamsuddoha Mamun (107), Abdul Mannan Mani (107), Aktaruzzaman Mridha Polash (106), Yousuf Khan Pathan (105), Lutfur Rahman Babu (105), Md Mojibur Rahman (105), Md Kamal Uddin (104), Habibur Rahman Bhuiyan (104), Farhad Jesmin Liti (103), Saifur Rahman Razzak (102), Shamima Sattar Mimu (101), Mahbuba Hossain Belli (93), Jatin Kumar Das (90) and Shrinibas Haldar (90). The election to Bangladesh Athletic Federation was earlier postponed in the dying moment in 2017. In the meantime, the federation was run by the ad-hoc committee, which was formed by the NSC on March 15 in 2017. UNB
