Farida Yasmin of the Dainik Ittefaq and Shyamal Dutta of Dainik Bhorer Kagoj of the pro-liberation journalists' forum have been elected president and general secretary (GS) of the Jatiya Press Club (JPC) respectively for the next two years.

Farida was elected president beating her rival Kamal Uddin Sabuj while Bhorer Kagoj editor Shyamal Dutta was elected general secretary beating his rival Elias Khan, according to results announced here today.

Chief election commissioner of JPC election Mostafa-e-Jamil announced the results at around 8pm tonight.

Earlier, the voting of JPC was held from 9am to 5pm without any break.