bombay bar association

Changing of the Guard: BBA Elections 2008

370 votes were cast at the Bar Association Elections held on 26 August 2008. Our scrutineers for the election made the following report.

1 President Mr R A Kapadia (unopposed)
2 Vice-President Mr D R Zaiwalla (unopposed)
3 Honorary Secretary
 
Total Votes Cast 370
Invalid votes 15
Lost 1
Mr M P Rao 281
R S Tripathi 73
Mr M P Rao is thus declared elected as Honorary Secretary of the Association
4 Members of the Standing Committee
1 Milind R Sathe 252
2 Satish J Shah 252
3 N Raja 232
4 Jamshed Cama 224
5 Gautam Patel 209
6 Girish Kulkarni 201
7 Jimmy F Pochkhanawalla 193
8 Nitin G Thakker 190
9 T N Subramanian 189
10 Venkatesh R Dhond 184
11 Pradeep Sancheti 184
12 Praveer Diwan 180
13 Sunip Kumar Sen 172
14 Gopal R. Hegde 171
15 Anita Shekhar Castellino 162
16 Mamta Sadh 155
17 Prathamesh D. Popat 146
18 Shaunak J Thacker 145
19 Harshad P Parekh 139
20 Ramesh D Soni 128
21 Ramgopal S Tripathi 119
22 Sashikumar Nair 116
23 Aspi Piroj Fanibanda 107
24 Ramchandra Yadav 102
25 C K Thomas 101
26 Vinay S Pathak 100
27 Vinay A Rathi 99
28 Mohsain Shirazi 90
29 Vinod Solanki 71
30 Janardan R Rane 64
31 Jasbir Singh Saluja 63
32 Firoz A Ansari 54
33 Sureshkumar J Panicker 47
34 Jayant J Satghar 44
35 Joboy Thadicaren 22
    The members at Serial Nos.1 to 20 are, thus, elected as members of the Standing Committee.

The Association thanks Mr Hiralal Thacker and Mr Girish Desai for acting as Scrutineers and the following members who willingly assisted during the elections and the counting of votes: Mr. Ashutosh Gavnekar and Mr Prashant Prabhu.

A very special thanks to the staff of High Court Law Library and others, who, as always, cheerfully and willingly stayed after court hours to help us with the counting: Prakash Berde, Datta Kalaskar, R S Pawar, Ramesh Tendulkar, Santosh Rahatwal, Krishna Gurav, Vijay Sawant, Surendra Gardi, Aba Narkar, Santosh Rane, Ashok Gawde, Tulshidas Gurav, Santosh Wadekar, Pandurang Nakashi, Gajanan Pawar, Balkrishna Kumbhar and Raghuveer Bhagat.