SUBHASH MISHRA
Dhanbad, Sept 1: The 22-day-old crisis in the newly elected Dhanbad Bar Association ended with the withdrawal of resignation by some office bearers after a meeting with the president and the general secretary.
Bar Association vice-president advocate Dhaneswar Mahto said that since president Amrendra Kumar Sahay and general secretary Jitendra Kumar accepted all our demands, so they have withdrawn their resignation.
116 years old Dhanbad Bar Association plunged into crisis when newly elected vice-president Dhaneswar Mahto, joint secretary Kedar Nath Mahto, treasurer Meghnath Rawani, assistant treasurer Dipak Shah and five executive members out of nine Anil Trivedi, Lalan Gupta, Bharti Srivastava, Ranjan Paul and Vijay Pandey sent their resignation to the Jharkhand State Bar Council (JSBC) Ranchi in protest against the working style of the president and the general secretary.
JSBC general secretary Rajesh Pandey sent a four-member committee last week to assess the crisis.
The Dhanbad Bar Association president and the general secretary continued to keep mum saying that they had not received the resignation of any elected office bearer. The Bar Council reportedly also did not take any step over resignation.
However, the impasse ended on Thursday evening when the dissident office bearers held a meeting with president Amrendra Sahay and general secretary Jitendra Kumar and decided to withdraw their resignation sent to the JSBC.
“We had only three demands- holding general body (GB) meeting in a year or in three months, payment of Durga Puja incentive (bonus) to lawyers and taking all decisions with consensus. Since the president and the general secretary accepted our demands we withdrew the resignation,” said Dhaneswar Mahto.
Bar Association president advocate Sahay when contacted said that he had no information about the resignation of any office bearer. Sahay said he also replied the same answer to the JSBC when it asked about the resignation of the office bearers. “We held a meeting and all confusion was sorted out,” he said.
“It was not a crisis. Such type of issue comes and goes in a big family but all remain united. We would continue to work in the interest of lawyers,” said Sahay who was elected for the second consecutive term in June this year.
