Blue panel sweeps DU senate polls

The ruling Awami League-backed ‘Blue panel’ swept the senate elections of Dhaka University today.

Aspirants from the ‘Blue panel’ won 33 seats of teachers’ representatives out of 35 posts while BNP-backed ‘White panel’ bagged only two posts.

Around 1,590 teachers cast their votes between 9:00am and 1:00pm at Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban on DU campus, reports a DU correspondent.

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DU Treasurer Professor Dr Md Kamal Uddin, also the election commissioner, announced the results this afternoon.

Teachers’ representatives from Blue panel are: Nazma Shaheen, Md Rahmat Ullah, Abu Md Delwar Hossain, AJM Shafiul Alam Bhuiyan, Abul Mansur Ahmed, AKM Jamal Uddin, Ishtiaque Moin Syed, SM Abdur Rahman, Kajal Krishno Banrjee, Towhida Rashid, Delwar Hossain, Baitullah Kaderi, Mubina Khondkar, Md Aftab Ali Shaikh, Md Aftab Uddin, Abdul Aziz, Abdus Samad, Ziaur Rahman, Fazlur Rahman, Md Mazibur Rhaman, Md Ali Akkas, Sabita Rizwana Rahman, Shibli Rubayat Ul Islam, Supriya Shaha, Subrata Kumar Aditya, Hasibur Rashid, SM Rezaul Karim, Chandra Nath Podder, Dr. Kazi Hanium Maria, Jannatul Ferdous, Papia Haque, Nusrat Jahan and Lafifa Jamal.

Meanwhile, ABM Obaidul Islam and Lutfur Rahman won the two posts from the White panel.

However, the left-leaning, ‘Pink panel’ did not participate in the senate polls.