Veteran Advocate Kishori Mohan Verma and young Rajkumar Raju were declared elected for the posts of President and Secretary of Hazaribagh Bar Council respectively.
The process of counting concluded late last night with the announcement of all the newly elected office bearers of the bar.
Senior advocate of Hazaribagh Bar Kishori Mohan Verma got a comfortable win for the post of President. He got 405 votes and his nearest rival MK Sinha Manne got only 235 votes. The third candidate in the fray SB lal managed to get only 115 votes.
In a tough fight Rajkumar Raju retained the post of general secretary for the third consecutive time by defeating his rival Advocate Hira lal by a margin of only 6 votes. Raju got 381 and Hira lal got 375 votes.
Shivkumar Shibu was elected Vice President. He got 332 votes while other contestants for this post Suman Kumar Singh got 199, Arun Prabhat Sinha 139 and Vinod Kumar Singh 108 votes. Mahavir Prasad was declared elected as Treasurer by getting 282 votes. Prabhat Kumar Prasad got 215, Sanjay Kumar 151 and Ehsaan Khan 101 votes. Kalidas Pandey occupied the post of Assistant Treasurer by getting 269 votes defeating Santosh Kumar Thakur who got 215 votes. Other two candidates Rajendra Prasad Singh got 151 and Sunil Kumar 136 votes.
For the post of Joint Secretary library 4 candidates were in the field. Kauleshwar Prasad Kushwaha won with 258 votes, Bakshi Naresh Prasad got 202, Mamta Kumari 154 and Manoj Kumar Yadav 136 votes. Sambhu Kumar was declared elected Joint Secretary Administration in a tough contest. He got 210 while Raj Prakash got 201 votes, Devdeep Jaiswal 196 and Kaushal Chakraborty 147.
For the nine posts of Executive Committee members Eena Sahay(359), Meera Kumari(345), Pramod Kumar Singh(316), Suresh Kumar Verma(310), Rakesh Kumar Bakshi(308), Md. Shah Faizal Khan(282), Gauri Shankar Prasad(281), Dharmendra Kumar Choudhary(277) and Ashish Kumar Dubey(261) were declared elected.