Four newcomers were elected as vice president, while two national footballers conceded defeat in four vital posts of the vice presidents in the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) Election 2024 held today (Saturday) at a local hotel in the capital. Two-time vice president, BNP leader, and businessman Tabith Awal elected the new president of the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) with a huge margin, beating AFM Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury, a grassroots organiser and coach from Dinajpur District, by 23-5 votes in the day's BFF Election '2024. Former footballer Tabith Awal, who elected BFF vice president in the BFF Election in 2012 and 2016 during the Kazi Salahuddin regime, ended the long 16-year, four-term tenure of Kazi M Salahuddin, who quit the election this time. President of BPL football champions Bashundhara Kings Imrul Hasan elected senior vice president (SVP) unopposed as his rival businessman and sports organiser Tarafder Md Ruhul Amin withdrew his candidature in the dying moment. BFF Election: Tabith Awal emerging as frontrunner to replace Salahuddin He will replace long serving BFF senior vice president, national booter, and former parliament member Abdus Salam Murshedy. Six candidates competed in the four vice president posts of BFF. Nasser Shahriar Zahedee, a grassroot level organiser of Jashore Shamsul Huda Academy elected the first vice president polling 115 votes, Wahiduddin Chowdhury Happy of Luxmipur District Football Association and elder brother of former BNP MP Shahiduddin Chowdhury Annie elected vice president securing 108 votes. Sabbir Ahmed Arif, member secretary of the Brothers Union Club, polled 90 votes to finish 3rd, while sports event management businessman Fahad Mohammad Ahmed Karim got 87 votes to be the 4th and last vice president. Former national footballer Syed Rumman Wali Bin Shabbir polled 66 votes, and another national footballer, cum coach Shafiqul Islam Manik, got 42 votes to concede defeat in the post of vice president. The annual general meeting of BFF was also held at the same venue Saturday morning with outgoing president Kazi Md Salahuddin in the chair. A total of 128 councillors out of 133 exercised their voting rights on Saturday from 2 pm to 6 pm to elect a 21-member BFF executive committee, including one president, one senior vice president, four vice presidents, and 15 executive committee members, among the 46 intending candidates. Thirty-seven competed in the 15 executive committee members of BFF; counting of member votes was in progress till the last report was received.

Nearly six months after the polls, defeated BNP mayoral candidate Tabith Awal on Wednesday filed a petition with the election tribunal seeking a directive to the returning officer for providing him all the necessary documents related to the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) elections and the results.

BNP’s Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) candidate Tabith Awal’s main polls agent Moazzem Hossain Alal came under a bomb attack in Monipur on Saturday morning.

The capital turned into a city of processions on Thursday as both mayoral and councillor candidates staged showdowns to demonstrate their popularity at the last moment since the curtain is set to fall on electioneering in the elections to the two Dhaka city corporations on Thursday midnight.

Stating that voters are all set to ensure the victory of ‘Sheaf of Paddy’, BNP’s Dhaka North City Corporation mayoral candidate Tabith Awal has urged the Election Commission to ensure a fair voting atmosphere on February 1.

The High Court Monday turned down a petition seeking cancellation of BNP's mayoral candidate for Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Tabith Awal’s nomination, clearing the way for Tabith’s participation in the upcoming election.

BNP mayoral candidate in Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) polls Tabith Awal on Saturday once again demanded that the Election Commission (EC) refrain from using electronic voting machines (EVMs) in the upcoming Dhaka city polls.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday alleged that the ruling party is conspiring to hamper their party’s victory in the elections to two Dhaka city corporations.

BNP’s Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayoral candidate Tabith Awal, who was attacked during canvassing, has said it is time to see the impartiality of the Election Commission (EC).

With the attack on a BNP Mayoral aspirant, the electioneering in the polls-bound Dhaka north and south city corporations heated up on Tuesday.