Saber Chy elected IPU president
Thursday, 16 October 2014
Saber Hossain Chowdhury, MP has been elected president of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) for the next three years. Saber, Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Textile and Jute Ministry, was elected IPU president defeating his nearest rival Speaker of Australia’s House of Representatives Bronwyn Bishop by 169-95 votes at the 131st assembly of IPU in Geneva of Switzerland on Thursday, according to a news agency.