Nagpur: The inordinately delayed High Court Bar Association’s (
HCBA) polls are likely to be further deferred by a month or so following a couple of contestants contracting Covid-19. The
affected include those contesting for top posts of president and secretary.
According to HCBA
members, the election panel would take a final call on Thursday after meeting with the managing committee. The panel would also consult with senior
judges. The polls, which were supposed to be conducted last year, were deferred after Covid-19 pandemic struck and lockdown was enforced in March last year.
According to
lawyers, one of the contestants had written to the election committee members requesting them to put off the polling due on March 12 as he was detected with the coronavirus and was recommended home isolation for two weeks. As such, he couldn’t go out and campaign.
Meanwhile, on the last date of withdrawal of nominations on Wednesday, none of the candidates took back their forms, thus ensuring all 37 of them would fight it out for 19 seats of HCBA’s executive committee.
# Contenders for HCBA polls for various posts:
* President — VG Bhamburkar, Atul Pande, Shridhar Purohit, Sameer Sohoni
* Vice President — Shreeganesh Abhyankar, Sharad Bhattad, Rajesh Nayak & Pankaj Tidke
* Secretary — Rugved Dhore & Amol Jaltare
* Treasurer — Mangesh Bute & Madhav Lakhe
* Joint secy — PS Chawhan, Shriram Deoras & Bhanubhushan Kumar
* Library in-charge — HM Bobde, Kaustubh Deogade & VC Oberoi
* Executive members — Anirudh Anathakrishnan, Bosco Anthony, PM Awathale, Rushak Bawiskar, BA Bhendarkar, SU Bhuyar, Abhishek Deshpande, Nishant Gurnani, Aquib Haque, Amol Hunge, MM Kalar, Sagar Katkar, Gaurav Khond, Apurva Kolhe, Akshaya Kshirsagar, Sagar Mhaiske, D Padmagiriwar, Sunita Paul and Ananta Ramteke