DHAKA, May 31, 2025 (BSS) - Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) today said it completed voting to elect a new executive committee for the next two years.

BGMEA officials said the voting to elect their new office bearers started in Dhaka and Chattogram at 8 AM and continued until 5 pm without any break with turnout of 88.21 and 83.83 percent voters in the capital and the southeastern port city.

  The association organized voting at Dhaka’s Radisson Blu Water Garden Hotel and Radisson Blu Bay View Hotel of Chattogram as polling centres where 1,561 and 303 BGMEA members cast their votes respectively.

   “The vote counting is underway. It will take some time to announce the result,” a BGMEA official familiar with the process said.

   Two panels called Forum Panel and Sammilito Parishad Panel led by Mahmud Hasan Khan Babu M Abul Kalam took part in the elections for 2025-2027 tenure.
   BGMEA polls elect some 35 directors who later nominate the president, vice-presidents and other office bearers.

   The last BGMEA election was held on March 9 last year when the Sammilito Parishad panel won in all the 35 director posts with SM Mannan Kochi emerging as its president.

   Kochi, however, resigned after the fall of the Hasina-led government in August last year in the student-led mass uprising and the then BGMEA senior vice-president Khandoker Rafiqul Islam Designtex Knitwear Ltd was made the president.

   The interim government later appointed M Anwar Hossain, vice-chairman of the Export Processing Bureau (EPB), as the BGMEA administrator.