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Published : 31 Oct 2024, 04:18 PM
President Mohammed Shahabuddin has formed a six-strong search committee to recommend commissioners for the next Election Commission.
The president will form a new Election Commission with five out of the ten names proposed by the committee within 15 days. The upcoming 13th parliamentary election will be held under the commission.
The six-member committee under the leadership of Appellate Division Justice Zubayer Rahman Chowdhury also includes High Court Justice AKM Asaduzzaman, Auditor General and Comptroller Md Nurul Islam, Bangladesh Public Service Commission Chairman Prof Mobasser Monem, former Dhaka University Department of International Relations professor Dr Chowdhury Rafiqul Abrar, and former Bangladesh Public Service Commission chairman Dr Zinnatun Nessa Tahmida Begum.
Among them, two judges of the Appellate and High Court divisions in the committee were nominated by the chief justice, as per the law. The CAG and PSC chairman became members of the panel due to their job status. The other two were nominated by the president.
JUSTICE ZUBAYER RAHMAN CHOWDHURY
Justice Zubayer Rahman Chowdhury is third in seniority among the judges in the Supreme Court’s Appellate Division.
Born in 1961, Zubayer’s father, AFM Abdur Rahman Chowdhury, was also a judge of the High Court Division. He completed his 15-year career as a judge in 2018.
Zubayer completed his graduation and post-graduation from Dhaka University’s Faculty of Law and completed his LLM in International Law in the United Kingdom.
He was enrolled as an advocate of the district court in 1985. He began his career in the High Court Division two years later.
Zubayer was elevated as an additional judge of the High Court Division in 2003. According to the rules, he was appointed as a judge of the division two years later.
After a major changeover in the Supreme Court after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government, Justice Zubayer was made an Appellate Division judge on Aug 13.
JUSTICE AKM ASADUZZAMAN
Justice AKM Asaduzzaman is second in seniority among the judges in the High Court Division.
Born in 1959, Asaduzzaman completed his graduation and post-graduation in law from Rajshahi University.
He started his career as a lawyer after his enrolment in the district court in 1983.
He was enrolled as an advocate of the High Court Division and the Appellate Division in 1985 and 2001 respectively.
Asaduzzaman was elevated as additional judge of the High Court Division in 2003 and appointed judge of the same division two years later.
He attended the Commonwealth Secretariat South Asian Judges Regional Forum on “Economic and Financial Crime” in Sri Lanka in 2011.
CAG NURUL ISLAM
Md Nurul Islam, a member of the audit and accounts cadre of the 8th Bangladesh Civil Service, assumed office as the comptroller and auditor general on Jul 26, 2023.
Prior to this position, he served as the controller general of accounts (CGA) for over two and a half years.
He completed his graduation and post-graduation from Dhaka University’s Department of Public Administration and has held various positions related to government accounts and audits in his career as a public servant.
His commitment to ‘excellence and good governance’ as the CGA earned him the National Integrity Award from the Ministry of Finance in 2022.
PROF MOBASSER MONEM
Mobasser Monem, a public administration professor at Dhaka University, took charge as the chairman of the Public Service Commission, or PSC, on Oct 9.
He obtained his PhD from the University of London and completed post-doctoral research at both Sussex University and the University of Heidelberg. His research expertise lies in governance, public sector innovation, and comparative public policy.
In addition to teaching, he has served as a consultant for various international organisations.
PROF CR ABRAR
Chowdhury Rafiqul Abrar, a retired professor of international relations at Dhaka University, is the executive director of the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit, or RMMRU, a private research institute in the migration sector.
His research works cover the topics of Rohingya refugees, migrant workers, citizenship of the Urdu-speaking population of Bangladesh, and others.
He was also the president of the human rights organisation ‘Odhikar’.
PROF ZN TAHMIDA BEGUM
Former PSC chairperson Dr Zinnatun Nessa Tahmida Begum is a retired professor of the Department of Botany at Dhaka University.
She served as chief of the PSC for five years from May 9, 2002. She was also pro-vice chancellor of Dhaka University.
Tahmida, who was at the forefront of the pro-BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami panel of teachers known as Sada Dal at Dhaka University, has held administrative posts, including in the university’s senate and syndicate.
