Sunil Toni to head Chandigarh DBA

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 18

Sunil Toni has been elected president of the District Bar Association (DBA) here. He defeated Ravinder Singh Jolly in the contest.

Amirtveer Singh was elected as the vice-president while Mukesh Kumar the secretary of the association. Navdeep Kaur was elected to the post of joint secretary, which was reserved for woman.

Earlier, Chandan Sharma was elected unopposed as the treasurer after another contender withdrew his nomination.

Toni has been elected as the president for the second term. He was earlier elected to the post in 2015- 16. Before that, he was elected vice-president in 2009.

Toni said solving the parking problem and providing chambers to the new advocates would be his priorities.

Chaman Lal, returning officer, said the election was peaceful and a total of 76 per cent polling was recorded. He said nine executive members and one secretary, library, were also elected unopposed earlier.