Senior advocates Bishwo Kanta Mainali and Basanta Ram Bhandari are contesting for the post of Nepal Bar Association president in the upcoming election of the Nepal Bar Association (NBA), the umbrella organization of legal professionals of the country, reports said.
Mainali will be representing the progressive lawyers panel backed by CPN-UML and Bhandari is to represent the democratic lawyers panel backed by the Nepali Congress.
Advocate Upendra Keshari Neupane will contest the post of general secretary of the Nepal Bar Association from the panel of democratic lawyers panel and one from advocates Bharat Raj Uprety and Raman Shrestha are likely to contest for the post of general secretary representing progressive lawyers panel which comprises pro left lawyers.
Sambhu Thapa is the current chairman of NBA.