All 5 candidates elected unopposed at DTBA AGM

Ludhiana: The annual general meeting (AGM) of District Taxation Bar Association (DTBA), sales tax, was held at the association’s office located in the building of state taxation department on Monday evening. During the meeting, the process of nomination filing for the general body of the DTBA too was held and since only one candidate for each post filed the nomination, all five were elected unopposed.

For the post of president, Arun Kanwal has been elected and this is the seventh time he will be holding this post. For the post of vice-president Jaswinder Singh has been elected, while for the post of secretary Ashok Wadhera has been elected. Prince Vivek has been elected to the post of finance secretary, while Sutikshan Tandon has been elected as the joint secretary of the DTBA. The entire process was conducted by the returning officer, Bal Krishan Gupta, and his team. Senior advocate Harish Rai Dhanda too was present at the meeting.

Speaking to TOI, newly elected president Kanwal said, “It is a great honour to lead one of the best and biggest professional body in Punjab. I am indebted to all my well-wishers for their love and support extended to me. I will make sure that our team will live up to the expectations of the members and we will always stand up to the cause of our members and fraternity.”

Meanwhile, during the meeting, members of the DTBA Sunil Sharma, Ravi Joshi and Chander Sehgal were honoured for services rendered during the Covid pandemic. The accounts, income and expenditure of the DTBA for the last year were also discussed in the meeting and were passed by the members present on the occasion with voice vote. Others prominent persons present on the occasion included Santosh Kumar Rath, Varinder Sharma, BR Kaushal, Arvinder Singh, Manoj Bajaj, Lovish Dhingra, Gagan Arora, Ashok Gupta, Naresh Gaba and Vijay Kumar.