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Murshedy wins BGMEA polls by landslide

Star Business Report
A Sanunilito Parishad panel led by Abdus Salam Murshedy won all 27 posts in the BGMEA election, accordingto earlyresuits.
M Anisuzzaman, chairman of the BGMEA election board, announced the results, hours past midnight, after a briefly suspended election that ended half an hour late at 4:30pm yesterday.
Murshedy will replace Anwar-Ul-Alam Chowdhury Parvez as the president of BGMEA.
Shahadat Hossain Kiron, the rival presidential candidate, has congratulated Murshedy on the landslide victory after the announcement of the results.
According to the chief of the BGMEA election board, 1,924 votes had been cast in the polls in Dhaka and the Chittagong centre counted 503 votes.
Of the total 2,678 voters, 2,122 are registered with the Dhaka office and 556 with the Chittagong office.
The BGMEA polls came to a 30-minute halt due to heated arguments over an alleged move by FBCCI President Annisul Huq to seek votes for Kiron, Murshedy's rival, at the election centre in Dhaka.
The Sammilito Parishad backers argued that the president of the apex trade body, FBCCI, "must not seek votes" for a candidate.
Asked to comment on the untoward incident, Annisul Huq, also a former BGMEA president, said some supporters of Sammilito Parishad had argued with him as he went there to cast vote.
"Nobody should stop me from casting my vote, as I'm a member of the BGMEA," he said.
"It's true that I'm the FBCCI president, but I'm also a voter of the association. So, there's nothing wrong to go over there and cast my vote," Huq said.
On the incident, Murshedy, leader of Sammilito Parishad, said he had been on the scene during the incident.
Murshedy said some voters had asked Huq to leave the place after his vote was cast, as he is the president of the FBCCI, a post according to him is neutral
Apart from the brief untoward incident, the election was peaceful.
In a pre-election statement to The Daily Star, Murshedy said his first
priority would be to protect the inter ests of the BGMEA members.
He vowed to revive the image of the garment businessmen. "It's true that many factories have faced some oddities for different reasons, but it's important to dig out the reasons behind the acts,” said Murshedy.
"I want to enhance the image of the garment manufacturers, exporters and the country as a whole through business," Murshedy said.
He had urged the government to urgently form a taskforce, focusing on the RMG sector by involving the garment manufacturers, exporters, stakeholders and the government to offset the negative impacts of the global recession.
The country's RMG sector is suffering from a 25 percent shortage of skilled workers and mid-level managers. "I will try to address this issue," he had told The Daily Star.
With regards to passing the trade bill in the US Congress, relating to duty and quota-free access to the US market, Murshedy said it depends on many conditions and the government should come forward to get the ball rolling.
According to Murshedy, labour unrest takes place not only because of delayed payment to workers the existing market situation that often sees rising prices of commodities is also a contributing factor.