The new committee was announced on Friday night during the IMCAB Night and biennial general meeting held at Hotel Westin in the capital. The other members of the committee, elected for a two-year term, are Vice-President Rajib Khan (TV9), Joint General Secretary Mir Afroz Zaman (UNI), Treasurer Abu Ali (Amar Asom), and Organizing Secretary Aminul Haque Bhuiyan (Tripura Darpan). The executive members of the committee are Basudev Dhar (Dainik Statesman), Rafiqul Islam Sabuj (Dainik Desher Katha), Nirmal Chakraborty (Face News), Zakir Hossain (Dainik Spandan), and Monir Hossain (Tripura Times).
The scheduled date for voting in the IMCAB election was September 5. The deadline for collecting and submitting nomination papers was August 29. However, as only one nomination paper was filed for each post, all candidates were elected unopposed. Mynul Hasan Sohel, General Secretary of the Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU), served as the convener of the election conducting committee.
The ‘IMCAB Night’ was held under the chairmanship of the organization’s outgoing president and Dainik Ei Samay correspondent, Kuddus Afrad. Attendees included Gokul V.K., First Secretary of the Indian High Commission; Ayub Bhuiyan, General Secretary of the National Press Club; Somnath Dey, President of the Bangladesh chapter of Vishva Hindu Parishad; Farid Hossain, IMCAB’s founding convener and advisor; Anisur Rahman, advisor and PTI correspondent; and Dwip Azad, former General Secretary of IMCAB, among others. The event concluded with a captivating cultural program.
Shahin Chowdhury (Tripura Express) and Masum Billah (Dainik Jugasankha and Eastern Chronicle) have been elected President and General Secretary, respectively, of the ‘Indian Media Correspondents Association, Bangladesh’ (IMCAB)—an organization representing various Indian media outlets operating in Bangladesh.