Senior advocate Surya Prasad Mishra was on Saturday elected as the new president of the Odisha High Court Bar Association. He defeated his nearest rival Srikant Naik by a margin of exactly 200 votes.
According to election officer Basudev Pujhari, the polling for different posts of the association went off peacefully. “While Mishra polled 1,088 votes, Naik got 888,” Pujhari said, adding that among some 4,500 members of the association, only 2,527 turned up for polling.
Bidyadhar Pradhan was elected as the secretary of the association defeating his nearest rival Bijay Kumar Ragad. Tapas Kumar Praharaj was elected as the joint secretary, Biren ShankarTripathy as the vice-president, Ranjit Kumar Mohanty as the assistant secretary and Dipti Ranjan Mohapatra as the assistant secretary (library).