With the completion of the nomination process of Dehradun Bar Association on Tuesday, candidates intensified their election campaign in the court campus on Wednesday. The polls for the Dehradun Bar Association will be held on February 26. Its result will be announced the same day. A close contest likely for the post of the president is what has had brought public glare on it.
The election officer lB Gurang said that during the general meeting of the DBA, it was decided that no advocate would be barred from contesting the election. Earlier, candidates who won election twice continuously any of the posts of DBA up for grab were prevented from contesting for two years. A committee comprising ten members has been constituted to implement electoral code during the election.
He further said that two candidates - Manmohan Khandwal and Rajiv Sharma- have filed nomination for the post of president while Anil Gandhi, Anil Pandit, Anil Sharma and Kamal Birmani for the post of secretary. Three candidates -Prakash T Pal, Rajiv Kumar Gupta and Shambhu Prasad Mamgai -had filed nomination for the post of vice president. Three candidates - Arvind Kumar Sharma, Bhanu Prasad Sisodiya and Sandeep Kumar -filed nomination for the post of joint secretary while four candidates -Ashutosh Gulati, Pritam Singh Aswal, Satya Dobra and Shailendra Kumar- for the post of auditor.
Two candidates Bipin Kumar Singh (Jatin) and Vinod Kumar filed nomination for the post of executive member 10+ while three - Alpana Jadli, Alpana Chauhan and RS Bharti- filed for the post of librarian. Two candidates - Amit Dangwal and Sukhvir Singh- filed nomination for the post of executive member 7+ while two - lalit Bhandari and Pankaj Bhandari – for the post of executive member 5+. Krishan Kumar, Niraj Kumar, Raghuvir Singh Gusain and Sameer had filed nomination for the post of executive member 3+. Single candidate Tasmin Ayesa has filed nomination for the post of executive member 3+.
Bhanu Prasad Sisodiya, a candidate who has filed nomination for the post of joint secretary said that he is using several methods like door to door campaign, sending SMS and social networking sites like facebook and twitter to woo the voters. An election officer Deepak Ahluwalia said that voter list has been prepared and this year, a total of 2533 advocates will cast votes. Those who carry identity cards of Dehradun Bar Association or Uttarakhand Bar Council will be allowed to cast votes. All possible steps have been taken to conduct free, fair and transparent DBA elections, he added.