Pro-Awami League (AL) Blue Panel teachers gained a landslide victory in the Dhaka University Teachers' Association (DUTA) election Thursday. The voting was held at Dhaka University Club from 10am to 2pm. The results were announced around 5pm. Blue Panel bagged 14 posts of the 15-member executive committee with Professor Md Nizamul Hoque Bhuiyan of the Institute of Nutrition and Food Science elected as president and Professor Zinat Huda of the sociology department as general secretary. DUTA election: AL leaning 'Blue Panel' wins all but one EC posts Also, from the panel, Professor Md Masudur Rahman of the marketing department and Professor Abu Khaled Mohammad Khademul Haque of the Islamic History and Culture department were elected treasurer and joint secretary, respectively. BNP and Jamaat-backed White Panel candidate Professor Lutfor Rahman of the statistics department won the vice-president post of the committee.

Blue panel, a panel of pro-Awami League teachers, swept the Dhaka University dean election on Thursday. The dean election of Dhaka University (DU) was held at Nawab Ali Chowdhury senate building and DU Treasurer Prof Mamtaz Uddin Ahmed announced the results at DU Club in the afternoon. Prof Md Rahmat Ullah and Prof Zillur Rahman of Blue Panel were declared elected deans of the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Earth and Environmental Science respectively before the election as no one from other panels contested the election. Read:Legal notice served on Dhaka University for barring married students from halls The other Blue Panel deans are Dr. Mohammad Abdul Bashir of Arts Faculty, Prof. Abdus Samad of Science Faculty, Dr. Mohammad Abdul Moin of Business Faculty, Dr. Ziaur Rahman of Social Science Faculty, Dr. AKM Hasan of Biological Sciences Faculty Dr. Shites Chandra Bachar of the Pharmacy Faculty, Dr. Hafiz Mohammad Hasan Babu of the Faculty of Engineering and Technology. The voting began at 9:00 am and continued till 1:00pm. The elected deans will serve for the next two years.