NEW DELHI: As the world relics fascinated by a classic battle between India and the UK for the place of a judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the government is going all out to put a stop to a bid by the UK to pause voting at the UN General Assembly where India's candidate Dalveer Bhandari enjoys support of more than 120 nations.

the UK instead seems to be to appeal to a mechanism of GA and Security Council Joint Conference, which has never been lodged in the history of ICJ, to opt the judge and, in the process, cancel well-liked support for Bhandari. The UK's nominee Christopher Greenwood clutch on to a meager lead in the 15-member Council and, under the current rules, this is enough to equalize the nearly two-thirds support for Bhandari in the GA.

For India, the election has now talked of the town and, as India's permanent representative to the UN Syed Akbaruddin said on Friday, the election was no longer about an individual. "It is now about whether the effect of the election of the World Court... that is what it is, the ICJ is the World Court... reflects the feelings of 'we the peoples of the world'? Does it reflect the democratic spirit of our times? The only measurement of that is the General Assembly of the United Nations,'' he had told.