The counting of votes for Ranchi District Bar Association (RDBA) started today. By evening the trends were available for seven key posts. For the post of president, incumbent president Shambhu Prasad Agarwal was leading with 319 votes, followed by Arvindra Kumar Mishra way behind with 176 votes. Another presidential candidate Rashmi Katayayan was in third place.
For the post of secretary which had maximum candidates Sanjay Kumar Vidrohi was leading with 256 votes. Anil Kumar Kanth was in second position securing 157 votes, Kali Charan Sahu was in the third position securing 76 votes. The counting of votes was going on at the time of filing of report. For the post of treasurer Mukesh Kumar Keshri was way ahead securing 243 votes, followed by Pritanshu Kumar Singh securing 170 votes.
For the post of vice president, Binoy Kumar Rai was leading with 218 votes.
The most interesting battle of ballot is for joint secretary ( admin) post as there was neck and neck contest between Ashok Kumar Bharti and Pawan Ranjan Khatri. By the sixth round, Khatri was leading with 246 votes, followed by Abhishek Kumar Bharti securing 238 votes. The third candidate Bharat Chandra Mahto was in third position with 105 votes.
RDBA officials said that counting of votes will continue till midnight and results will be available by late night.
For the post of joint secretary (library) too the contest was tough as there was a direct contest between Pradeep Kumar Chaurasia and Arvind Kumar Singh. The election of Ranchi District Bar Association was held on Monday with 84.64 percent voting, which is .76 percent less than the previous election. During the session 2019-21 election, 1679 voters cast their franchise out of 1966 voters while this year against 2155 voters, 1824 members exercised their franchise.
The counting of votes is done under the surveillance of CCTV cameras. There are 78 candidates in fray. The members of RDBA will elect seven office bearers and nine executive members who will run the show for two years 2021-23.
Like previous years, this time too there is one on one fight for the post of general secretary, Vice President, Joint Secretary. Maximum number of people have submitted their candidature for the post of secretary.
This time election was being held under pandemic with all Covid 19 guidelines being followed. Wearing of masks, use of sanitizers and social distancing was made mandatory for election.