Lucknow: In a closely fought triangular contest, senior advocate G C Verma was elected president of the Oudh Bar Association at the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court, defeating his nearest rival Kuldeep Pati Tripathi by a margin of just 57 votes.Verma secured 1,188 votes against Tripathi’s 1,131, while senior advocate Anand Mani Tripathi finished third with 1,086 votes, making the presidential contest one of the keenly contested races in the annual elections.Balakeshwar Srivastava was elected general secretary, polling 2,037 votes. His rival Anil Kumar Mishra secured 1,494 votes.Suniti Sachan won the senior vice-president’s post with 2,035 votes, defeating Kirti Srivastava, who polled 1,968 votes, by a narrow margin of 67 votes.According to the results declared after the completion of counting, Rahul Kumar Singh and Vineet Kumar Pandey were elected middle vice-presidents, while Abhiram Mishra alias ‘Malay’ won the junior vice-president’s post.Bhumika Bajpai was elected joint secretary, while Aradhana Shukla won the treasurer’s post.Ram Kumar Srivastava, Uma Kant Dixit, Banwari Lal and Ashish Kumar Singh were elected senior executive committee members. Mithilesh Singh and Seema Dubey won the senior executive committee seats reserved for women.In the junior executive committee category, Shubham Tiwari, Nikhil Dwivedi, Sanjeet Kumar Patel and Lakshmi Narayan Gupta were elected. Kanchan Maurya and Priyanka Tiwari won the junior executive committee seats for women.
