LAHORE: The campaign for Punjab Bar Council elections has touched its peak ahead of polling on Saturday (tomorrow).

Colourful posters, stickers and banners carrying names and photos of the candidates are allover the courts and their surroundings, besides many other places in the provincial metropolis.

For a five-year-term house of 75 members, as many as 268 candidates are in the run from eight divisions of Punjab. A total of 78,889 voters will exercise their right to vote. The polling will be held from 9am to 4pm, simultaneously at 228 polling stations in the province.

The voters will elect 22 candidates from Lahore division, 12 from Multan, 10 from Gujranwala, five from Sargodha , seven from Rawalpindi, six from Bahawalpur, five from DG Khan and seven from Faisalabad division.

Punjab advocate general is ex-officio chairman of the PbBC. The siting Punjab AG Hanif Khatana would conduct the elections as returning officer.

Published in Dawn, November 21th, 2014