The biennial general election of ISPAB, a trade association of Internet service providers, will be held on December 11. In this election of 2021-23 term, a total of 20 candidates including a single panel have been finalized. In order to get the verdict of the associate members, 19 candidates got legitimacy in the election against 4 posts.
However, there is an opportunity to withdraw the candidature on November 20.
The ISPAB-Election Commission 2021 has announced the final candidature on Wednesday (November 10). The list, signed by Chief Election Commissioner Nazrul Islam Babu and two other commissioners, Dhirendranath Adhikari and Abdullah H Kafi, has been compiled according to the order of the candidates.
However, in the meantime, ‘Team Forward’ has been formed with 9 candidates under the leadership of the current Secretary General of ISPAB, Imdadul Haque. Other members of the team are Saiful Islam Siddique, Managing Director, ICC Communications Limited; Nazmul Karim Bhuiyan, Managing Director, KS Network Limited; Md. Zakir Hossain, Chairman, Unified Core Limited; Sakif Ahmed, Chief Executive Officer, InfoLink Limited; Anwarul Azim, Chief Executive, Chittagong Telecom; Md. Abdul Qayyum Rashed of Triangle Services Ltd; Mahbubur Rahman Raju, Head of Circle Network and Md. Asaduzzaman of Antorango.com.
Others in the list are; Md. Sujanur Rahman, owner, Karsan Net; Banglanet’s Jobayer Al Mahmud Hossain; Brink System’s Md. Shariful Islam; Dhakatech IT’s Ashraf Uddin, Digicon’s Biswajit Saha, Dolly IT Corner’s Moniruzzaman Monir, Exzord Online’s Sabir Ahmed, Meer Mosharraf Hossain of IT Base; Md. Al Imran of Net atHome;, Kazi Mahbub of Netcafe and Mahbub Morshed of NMS Technology.
Imdadul Haque, Director and COO of Optimax Communications Limited, said that Team Forward will work with all its members to promote Digital Bangladesh’s backbone broadband internet service to international standards.
Meanwhile, nominees in the associate member category are Md. Nasir Uddin of Speed Technology, Md. Mahmudul Hasan Arif of The Smart Network, Raisul Islam Tuhin of Tuhin Enterprise, Md. Ahid Ullah Bhuiyan of IT, Masud Rana of Unique Net, Anwar Hossain of Sun Online Rashid, Shafiqul Islam of Runway Broadband, Md. Kamrul Hasan of Three Technologies, Kamal Uddin Ahmed of BCL Online, Tariq Hasan of City Link Communications, Russel Mahmud of Elite Computer & Technology, Fuad Muhammad Sharfuddin of Fisa Communications, Dipankar Barua of Green Broadband, Kabir Hossain of Haji Online, Asif Chowdhury of Ilma Multimedia, Shahjahan of Pragati IT and Alamgir Hossain of Digital Communications.
In this election, 206 voters will vote to elect 9 members of the executive committee. On the other hand, 551 voters will cast their votes to nominate 4 associate members.
