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Papon elected as BCB president again

Nazmul Hasan Papon has been elected the President of Bangladesh Cricket Board for the fourth time in a row after 2013 and 2017. He was solely elected head of the Tiger Cricket Board at the first meeting of the board of directors elected today.

Nazmul Hasan Papon was elected as the director of Category-2 Dhaka Club Kotha with the highest number of votes. He got 53 votes. He was elected president by a vote of 25 elected directors.

Papon was nominated by the government and became the president of the BCB in 2012. The following year, he was elected unopposed by the panel. He was elected in the same way in 2017 after four years. But twice the director of BCB has been elected without contest. But this time the board chief Papun took that taste.

After the election commission published the results officially today at the BCB’s headquarters at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, AJM Nasir Uddin, a director from the Chattogram Division, proposed Papon’s name as the president and his proposal was supported by two directors-Enayet Hossain Siraj and Gazi Golam Mortuza Pappa.

This is the first time, he had to contest in election but shined in impeccably, bagging highest 53 votes alongside Enayet Hossain Siraj and Gazi Golam Mortuza Pappa.

The councillors yesterday elected 12 directors from the Category-2 that involved Dhaka Metropolitan Clubs, including Papon, the councillor of Abahani Limited. The rest of the 11 elected directors are- Gazi Golam Mortuza Pappa, Enayet Hossain Siraj, Ismail Haider Mallick, Najib Ahmed, Obeid Rashid Nijam, Fahim Sinha, Iftekhar Rahman Mithu, Salahuddin Chowdhury, Manzur Kader, Mahbub Anam and Manzur Alam Manzu.

A total of 16 councillors contested in this category with Saiful Islam Bhuiyan, Rafiqul Islam, Abdur Rahman and Masuduzzman tasting the defeat.

The BCB also saw an election in Category-1 that included districts and divisions. Four contestants contested for the two director posts of Dhaka Division but Bangladesh’s first Test captain Naimur Rahman Durjoy and Tanvir Ahmed Titu emerged as victorious, claiming identical 17 votes.

The rest of the two candidates Syed Ashfakul Islam Titu and Khalid Hossain withdrew their nomination, but they opted out of the election after the date of the withdrawal of nomination, their names were printed in the ballot paper.

Election was also held in Rajshahi division where former skipper Khaled Mashud Pilot and organizer Saiful Alam Swapon Chowdhury contested. The latter, however, triumphed to be elected for the third consecutive time.

Earlier, seven directors, all from Categroy-1 were elected unopposed.

While the election in the Categroy-2 was the center of all attraction, the Categroy-3 election also hogged the limelight with Nazmul Abedin Fahim, a veteran cricket coach challenging Khaled Mahmud Sujon. The election in this Category which involved public university, former cricketers and government agencies was believed to be intense, but former skipper Khaled Mahmud Sujon achieved a landslide victory. He was elected, claiming 37 votes while his opposite number Nazmul Abedin Fahim got only three votes.

National Sports Council (NSC), meanwhile, nominated two directors – Ahmed Sajjadul Alam Booby and Jalal Younus.

The board of directors will run the BCB for the next four years.

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