BCD elections: The final results

Legal Insiders Apr 12, 2018 Editor : Shreya Bansal 0 Shares

Thevote-counting of the Bar Council of Delhielections have ended and the long-awaited results are finally out.

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In total 173 candidates contested for the elections out of which 25 office bearers got elected who secured the most number of votes. The names of the 25 elected members are Ajayendra Sangwan, Murari Tiwari, Rajiv Khosla, Nitin Ahlawat, Piyush Gupta, Raj Pal Kasana, D.K. Singh, D.K. Sharma, Ramesh Gupta, K.K. Manan, Himal Akhtar, KC. Mittal, Surya Parkash Khtri, R.K. Kochhar, Rakesh Sherawat, Jagdev, R.S. Goswami, Ved. P. Sharma, O.P. Faizi, V.K Sondhi, Manoj Kumar Singh, Sanjeev Nasiar, Vishnu Sharma, Sanjay Rathee and Kumar Mukesh.

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This year the BCD elections have opened up after a gap of nine years and with 52,000 eligible voters to select 25 office bearers the competition was really fierce.

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