The panel led by Saiful Alam of Daily Jugantar and Farida Yasmin of Daily Ittefaq has swept the election to form the new executive committee of the National Press Club.
Their panel bagged 13 out of the 17 posts of the committee through the polls held on Tuesday.
Saiful was elected president with 621 votes, while Farida was elected general secretary with 569 votes, reports UNB.
In the process, they beat their nearest rivals Shawkat Mahmud (431 votes) and Ilias Khan (406 votes).
Senior journalist Omar Farroque was elected senior vice president with 442 votes, while Azizul Islam Bhuiyan was elected vice president with 554 votes.
The other new office-bearers of the 17-member executive committee are Joint Secretaries Shahed Chowdhury and Mainul Alam, and Treasurer Shaymal Dutta.
The 10 new members are Kuddus Afrad, Shahmsuddin Ahmed Charu, Rezwanul Haque Raza, Shahnaz Begum, Sanaul Haque, Kalyan Saha, Jahiduzzaman Farroque, Syed Abdal Ahmed, Bakhtiar Rana, and Hasan Arefin.
Earlier on Tuesday, voting in the Press Club election was held from 9am to 5pm without any breaks.
