Mansehra bar, traders’ elections postponed

MANSEHRA: The District Bar Association (DBA) and trader community on Sunday postponed elections as a precautionary measure against the coronavirus. The fresh schedules would be announced the next month. "We have postponed our election in the light of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Council’s decision. A fresh schedule would be announced on April 4,” Ayaz Khan, the chairman, DBA election board, told reporters here.

Flanked by a member of election board Azam Khan, he said the bar’s annual elections for the year 2020-21 were scheduled to be held on March 28, which were cancelled. Also in the day, Fayyaz Sulheria, the chairman of the election committee constituted by the traders, announced the postponement of the elections.

“As the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government ordered the closure of the business centres and shops to contain the coronavirus in the province, we have to follow it in letter and spirit and this is why have postponed our elections,” Fayyaz told a news conference. Flanked by aspirants from the two panels running for traders’ central body, he said the fresh election schedule would be announced after normalcy is restored and the coronavirus threat is over.