Senior Advocate Vijay Prasad Mishra, the newly elected president of Nepal Bar Association, has said that efforts will be made to remove distortions and anomalies in the judiciary.
During his tenure, Mishra has committed that the bar should play a role in making the judiciary clean and the newly elected working committee of the bar will work for that.
The election results for the Nepal Bar Association were announced on Thursday. According to which, the ruling UML and legal practitioners' organizations close to the Congress formed an alliance and nominated Mishra as the candidate for the president . President candidate Mishra got 5 thousand 52 votes while his competitor senior advocate Raman Kumar Shrestha got 2 thousand 621 votes. Shrestha Maoist Center and legal professional organization of RSWP formed an alliance.
The candidate of the Mishra panel has won the seven vice-presidents of the Nepal Bar. Padamprasad Limbu from Koshi, Ajayshankar Jha from Madhes, Tej Bahadur Rawal from Bagmati, Bhupendra Khanal from Gandaki, Krishna Prasad Pokhrel from Lumbini, Vivash Kumar Basnet from Karnali and Siddharaj Ojha from Sudurpaschim were elected as vice president. While Kedar Prasad Koirala, a senior advocate of the Mishra Panel was elected as the General Secretary, Jagat Bahadur Karki, a senior advocate of the Mishra Panel was also elected as the Treasurer.
Mishra, who was elected as the president, has said that he will implement the agenda put forward in the election. "I have a lot of work to do at the Nepal Bar". Our team will have to show it by working and not speaking," he said. "Our plan is to amend the constitution, reform the judiciary, reform the structure of the judicial council, and improve the functioning of the judicial council. We will do the necessary work to remove distortions and anomalies in the judiciary. We will work to improve the problems seen in the judiciary.'
Mishra said that the newly elected working committee of the bar will move forward unitedly to uplift the rights and interests of legal professionals and young legal professionals. We will arrange different types of training for legal professionals through the Lawyers Academy. We will develop bar relations in the national and international fields. We will bring transparency to the bar and emphasis will be placed on adherence to the code of conduct for legal practitioners.'
The newly elected chairman of the bar, Mishra, has also committed to implement the report prepared by the then judge of the Supreme Court, Harikrishna Karki, for the reform of the courts.
Stating that he will play a role on behalf of the bar to make justice accessible to everyone, Mishra said that he will take initiatives to modernize legal education. As a member of the
bar, the candidate of the Mishra panel has also won. Dalit Member Chiranjeevi Tilkyani, Madhesi Muslim (Outside Valley) Member Adv. Paudel, Kiran Neupane, Sharda Gurung, Daman Bahadur Chand, Baburam Aryal, Mukund Adhikari, Madhav Mainali won.
