Traders throng for membership ahead of RCCI polls
Sunday, 5 October 2008
Our Correspondent
RAJSHAHI, Oct 4: There is a huge rush of traders and businessmen to become members of Rajshahi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) as the election of the chamber is nearing.
Every year, just before the RCCI elections, a huge number of traders and businessmen from all over Rajshahi district are enrolled as voters by the candidates of various executive bodies. After the election, the members do not remain active.
Many of them do not pay even their monthly subscription, and ultimately lose their memberships. The election candidates make the seasonal members only for collecting votes as they are doing this year also.
The regular members of RCCI demanded that such malpractice of using seasonal voters for purchasing votes be stopped. Otherwise, no genuine and honest executive will ever be elected to the trade body.
RCCI Secretary Emdadul Haque told this correspondent, the number of voters of RCCI was 3,600 in 2001 and in the last election of 2007, the number of voters was 550. As the next election comes closer, the number has already risen to about one thousand.
RAJSHAHI, Oct 4: There is a huge rush of traders and businessmen to become members of Rajshahi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) as the election of the chamber is nearing.
Every year, just before the RCCI elections, a huge number of traders and businessmen from all over Rajshahi district are enrolled as voters by the candidates of various executive bodies. After the election, the members do not remain active.
Many of them do not pay even their monthly subscription, and ultimately lose their memberships. The election candidates make the seasonal members only for collecting votes as they are doing this year also.
The regular members of RCCI demanded that such malpractice of using seasonal voters for purchasing votes be stopped. Otherwise, no genuine and honest executive will ever be elected to the trade body.
RCCI Secretary Emdadul Haque told this correspondent, the number of voters of RCCI was 3,600 in 2001 and in the last election of 2007, the number of voters was 550. As the next election comes closer, the number has already risen to about one thousand.