A day before the polling for the Dehradun Bar Association elections, candidates used several methods like door to door campaign, sent SMS and social networking sites like facebook and twitter to woo voters on Tuesday. The polling will be held between 9.30 am and 4.30 on Wednesday.
The election officer Advocate Deepak Ahluwalia said that voters will have to show their identity card of Dehradun Bar Association or Uttarakhand Bar Council before franchising their vote in this election. “A total of 12 polling booths have been set up in the court campus. All the possible steps have been taken to conduct free, fair and transparent DBA elections, he added.
Being the last day before the polling, contestants left no stone unturned in wooing voters during campaigning in the court campus on Tuesday. Candidates witnessed reaching advocate’s chamber and seeking their blessing in the form of vote. Advocate Alok Ghildiyal, contesting for the post of secretary, said, “I have sent SMS to the voters who were absent in the court premises and distributed visiting cards among new voters with an appeal to vote for me on Wednesday. After filing nomination, I used to conduct door to door campaign and through social networking sites after court hours.”
The election officer Ahluwalia said that a total of 32 candidates are in fray for 11 different posts like president, vice president, secretary, joint secretary, auditor, librarian and executive members. 2436 advocates would cast their vote on Wednesday. He further said that three candidates Rajiv Sharma, Manmohan Kandwal and Shivcharan Singh Rawat are in fray for the post of president. Six candidates including Manoj Kumar Sundriyal, Suresh Uniyal, Prakash, Arvind Kumar Arya, Satish Chandra Maurya and Shambhu Prasad Mamgai are contesting election for the post of vice president. Four candidates- Alok Ghildiyal, Anil Pandit, Kamal Virmani and Raghuveer Singh Kathait are fighting election for the post of secretary while Bhanu Prasad Sisodiya and Gambhir Singh Chauhan for the post of joint secretary.
Ashutosh Gulati and Neeraj Aggarwal are in fray for the post of auditor while RS Bharti, Alpana Jadli, Aparna Chauhan and Raj Kumar Gupta for the post of librarian. Single candidate Vinita Tripathi had filed nomination for the post of executive (3+years, reserved for women). The oath ceremony of the elected office bearers will be held on February 28.