Chattogram:Engineer Md. Nurul Karim has been elected Chairman of the Chattogram Centre of the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB). In the recent elections, Karim secured 997 votes, outpacing his closest competitor, Engineer Manzare Khorshed Alam, who received 796 votes.
According to Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha, Engineer Md. Kamal Uddin Ahmed and Engineer Md. Sakhawat Hossain were elected as Vice-Chairmen. Kamal Uddin Ahmed, in the Vice-Chairman (Academic and Human Resource Development) category, won with 1,203 votes, defeating Engineer Rafiqul Islam, who garnered 715 votes. Sakhawat Hossain, for Vice-Chairman (Administration, Professional and Social Welfare), secured 951 votes against Engineer Mominul Haque's 654 votes.
Engineer Mohammad Rashed Alam was elected as the Honorary Secretary with 855 votes, while Engineer Md. Mezbah Uddin Khaled was his nearest rival with 740 votes. Additionally, in the Local Council member election, Md. Jahangir Alam, Md. Abu Jafar, Sujit Kumar Nandi, Soumit Pal, Md. Saimum Shibli, and Parimal Chandra Pal were elected with 995, 947, 936, 914, 815, and 805 votes respectively.
The candidate list published prior to the election indicated that Nurul Karim and Rashed Alam ran on the BNP-aligned Association of Engineers, Bangladesh (AEB) panel. Their main opponents, Manzare Khorshed Alam and Mezbah Uddin Khaled, were part of the Jamaat-supported Engineers Forum panel.