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Returning Officer of the District Bar Association, Ashok Mital, said all arrangements are in place to ensure smooth polling during the Bar elections to be held on Saturday.

Returning Officer of the District Bar Association DBA, Ashok Mital, said all arrangements are in place to ensure smooth polling during the Bar elections to be held on Saturday. He said 1,694 advocates are expected to cast their votes to decide the fate of 26 candidates contesting for different posts. Polling will start at 9 am and continue till 4.30 pm.

Current president of the association and a contender for the post of president, Parupkar Singh Ghumman, claimed that the DBA was facing a severe financial crunch when he joined office, which was resolved due to his efforts.

Opening a post office, paving the parking lot, installation of submersible water pumps and a water reservoir, construction of a park and free Internet facility were other achievements listed by him. If elected this year, he promised a cooperative housing scheme for lawyers, installation of CCTV cameras in the court complex, opening a bank on the court premises and 15 per cent quota for lawyers in plots allotted by Greater Ludhiana Area Development Authority and Ludhiana Improvement Trust.

Stevan Soni, also a candidate for the post of president, said his priority was cleanliness in the judicial complex and improvement in the canteen facilities. He added that he would press the government to install two more lifts in the judicial complex.

Candidates
For the post of vice president
Vishal Gupta, Anil Kaushal and Joga Singh Rahi

For the post of secretary
Gurminder Singh Sodhi, Rakesh Bhatia, Amandeep Bhanot and Kamaljit Sharma

For the post of Finance secretary
Naveen Sharma, Ajay Arora, Sandeep Arora and Puneet Jaggi

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For the post of joint secretary
Yadwinder Sharma and Vinod Sharma

For the executive body Six members
G S Bedi, Ajay Dogra, S K Chawla, Balraj Kaur, Sunil Shirivastva, Akashdeep Singh, Deapek Khullar, Bhagwant Singh and Gurpreet Singh Bhalla

VIP voters
Former Education Minister Harnam Dass Johar
Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha Charanjit Singh Atwal
Local Lok Sabha MP Sharanjit Singh Dhillon
Chief Parliamentary Secretary Harish Rai Dhanda
SAD leader and former minister Mahesh Inder Singh Grewal