[SCBA Elections] Vikas Singh, Kailash Vasdev, Priya Hingorani among others in race for post of President

The list of candidates contesting for the 2020-21 Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) elections has been released. .For the post of President, the contesting candidates are Senior Advocates Vikas Singh, Priya Hingorani, Kailash Vasdev, Dr. Adish Chandra Aggarwala and advocates Ashok Arora and Ajay Mandyal..Senior Advocates Pradeep Kumar Rai, SB Upadhyay, R Balasubramanian, and Advocates DD Sharma and SS Gupta will battle for the post of Vice President. .Advocates Amit Anand Tiwari, Vikram Yadav, Harpreet Singh Sandhu, Surjendra Singh Nehra, Ardhendumauli Kumar Prasad, and Manish Kumar will contest for the post of Secretary. .Advocates Meenesh Kumar Dubey, Rajesh Kumar Maurya, Pradeep Kumar Yadav and Yugandhara Pawar Jha will be contesting for the post of Treasurer. .Earlier, a health advisory team from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi has suggested that the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) elections should be held through online mode in view of the COVID-19 pandemic..The team from AIIMS had visited the Supreme Court premises after a request to that effect was made by the Additional Registrar of the Supreme Court."In view of the probability of spread of Covid in large congregation and feasibility of elections to be conducted on secure online platform, it is desirable that the elections are done on online platform only," the AIIMS team suggested..The SCBA Election Committee had on January 27 proposed to hold the elections in a hybrid manner, with voters having the option of both physical and digital voting. However, holding physical voting was subject to the advice of the health advisory committee which has now opined against it.The AIIMS team's opinion was solicited after Chief Justice of India SA Bobde urged representatives of the SCBA to consider seeking a medical expert opinion before holding physical elections..Election Committee nominated for upcoming SCBA elections: Delhi High Court disposes of plea alleging interference by Executive Committee.The SCBA elections are scheduled to be held on February 27..[Read full list of candidates]