Agartala, October 2: Advocate Ratan Datta has once again been elected as the Chairman of the Tripura High Court Bar Council. The election for the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Bar Council was held on Friday at the High Court premises. The elected members took part in the election through secret ballot. Advocate Madhumita Chowdhury was elected as the Vice-Chairman.
The election of the High Court Bar Council was held in February this year. In that election, seven candidates from the BJP lawyers’ organisation, four from the CPI(M), two from the Congress lawyers’ organisation and one independent candidate were elected. As per the direction of the Supreme Court, one co-opted member was also nominated to the Bar Council this year.
A total of 15 members voted on Friday for the election of the Chairman and Vice-Chairman. The voting was held through secret ballot at the office of the High Court Bar Council.Ratan Datta received eight votes for the post of Chairman. His opponents, CPI(M) lawyer Shashi Chakraborty and Congress lawyers’ organisation candidate Prashanta Sen Chowdhury, received four and three votes respectively.
For the post of Vice-Chairman, Madhumita Chowdhury of the BJP Legal Cell received nine votes. Her opponents, CPI(M)’s Pulak Saha and Congress Legal Cell’s Prashanta Sen Chowdhury, received four and three votes respectively.
After being re-elected as Chairman of the Bar Council, Ratan Datta said that he would once again take responsibility as Chairman and work for the interests of the lawyers. It may be mentioned that in the earlier Bar Council election, he had received the highest number of votes, 232.
