Farida Yasmin of the Dainik Ittefaq and Shyamal Dutta of Dainik Bhorer Kagoj were elected president and general secretary (GS) of the Jatiya Press Club (JPC) respectively for the next two years.
They participated in the election from the pro-liberation journalists' forum.
Chief Election Commissioner of JPC election Mostafa-e-Jamil announced the results around 8:00 pm on Saturday, UNB and BSS reported.
Farida was elected president beating her rival Kamal Uddin Sabuj while Bhorer Kagoj editor Shyamal Dutta was elected general secretary beating his rival Elias Khan.
Farida Yasmin bagged 567 votes while her rival candidate Kamal Uddin Sabuj got 401. Shyamal Dutta got 496 votes while his nearest candidate Elias Khan secured 474 for the general secretary post of the JPC management committee for 2023-24.
Poet Hasan Hafiz was elected senior vice-president (559) and Rezwanul Haque Raza (583) vice-president.
The other office bearers of the 17-member JPC executive committee are joint secretaries Ayub Bhuiyan, (540) and M Ashraf Ali (491), and treasurer Shahed Chowdhury (576).
The 10 members are UNB Editor Farid Hossain (495), Quazi Rownaq Hossain (422), Shahnaj Siddiqui Shoma, (390), Kalyan Saha (382), Shahnaz Begum Poly (360), Syed Abdal Ahmed (347), UNB Chief of Correspondent Julhas Alam(345), Bakhtiar Rana (330), Mohammad Momin Hossain (330) and Simanta Khokon (289).
Earlier, the voting of JPC was held from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm without any break.
