Kanpur: Anurag Pandey, vice-chairman of the Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh, has set a record in the council’s general elections by attaining the quota of 7,088 votes in the second round of counting. He is the first among the 332 candidates in the fray to reach the prescribed quota.
Pandey, who hails from Kanpur, secured the highest number of first-preference votes, 4,504, in the first round of counting, according to the Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh secretary. The quota for election was fixed at 7,088 votes. In the ongoing second round of counting, Pandey secured an additional 2,584 votes, taking his tally to 7,088 and helping him attain the prescribed quota.
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The secretary said no candidate in elections to the UP Bar Council, or any other state bar council in the country, had previously secured such a tally, describing Pandey’s achievement as historic. Download the TOI App.