He has a wide and deep base among the youth, but his appeal cuts across all nature of lawyers. He is Anmol Rattan Sidhu, who appears to have leant never to lose. He repeated his victory run for the umpteenth time on Friday, stamping his authority on the post of Punjab and Haryana Bar Association President for the 7th time.
The election was said to be keenly contested between him and his closest rival Partap Singh right through, and the victory margin was widely expected to be thin. But as the counting progressed through the hot summer day, after very heavy polling of over 85 percent of the 4500 odd voters on Thursday, the margin kept widening, negating the general impression of a close fight. Anmol finally romped home with 2104 votes in his favour against Partap Singh’s 1490 votes. Principled warrior Tahar Singh again finished a distant third with just 188 votes, which was way below his showing last year when he had mustered an impressive 638 votes.
Anmol Rattan mobbed by his supporters after his victory
Photos By: Sumit Kumar
In elections to the other posts, Puneeta Sethi (1783 votes) defeated her nearest rival Ritam Aggarwal (855 votes) for Vice-president. Among all, Ravinder Sigh Randhawa polled the maximum number of votes (2446) to win the post of Honorary Secretary by defeating his nearest rival Narinder Singh Behgal (1116 votes). For post of Joint Secretary, Lovinder Kaur Brar (2217 votes) beat Neelam Devi Chaudhary (1492) votes. The post of Treasurer went to Gagandeep Jammu, who polled 1274 votes against his nearest rival Loveneet Thakur’s 914.
Talking to lifeinchandigarh.com Anmol credited his victory to the support of the youth and his highly impressive track record of work done for lawyer friends.
Partap Singh displays victory sign on polling day
Starting from the presidentship of the Students’ Union in Government College, Sector 11, Chandigarh way back in 1978-79, Anmol has never looked back. He went on to become President of the Students’ Council of Panjab University (PU) Chandigarh, member of both the PU Senate and Syndicate, Dean, Faculty of Law in PU, Chairman of the Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana, Additional Advocate of Haryana and Assistant Solicitor General of India.
Frenzied celebrations erupted as Anmol’s victory was announced, with his friends and supporters vying with each other to hug and congratulate him. He was profusely garlanded and taken in a victory procession. The day ended with a gala party at the Chandigarh Club in the evening.
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