This is the first council in two years for the struggling federation, which lost five key members including its general secretary two years ago after change of the government.

The main agenda of the council will be either to fill the five vacated posts or go for fresh elections. The speculation is that most of the 68 voters are interested to have a new election.

The federation is also looking forward to its councillors to remove the 'amateur' tag from its name.

Among the five absentee executive members general secretary Ibrahim Chenghis, joint-secretary Iqbal Hossain and member Mostak Ahmed are now residing in Canada while treasurer Delwar Hossain and member Mujibur Rahman never appeared in the federation since the change of power.