NEW DELHI: Senior journalists Gautam Lahiri and Neeraj Thakur panel on Sunday made a clean sweep in all the five office bearers and 16-member of managing committee posts of the Press Club of India.
Gautam Lahiri has been elected as the president of the club with 1045 votes while Atul Mishra and Arun Sharma managed to poll 133 and 116 votes, respectively. For Secretary General post, Neeraj Thakur defeated Laxmi Devi Aree and secured 913 votes.
For the post of vice president, Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty got 930 votes whereas Rahil Chopra and Prahlad Singh Rajput received 230 and 100 votes, respectively. Afzal Imam was elected as the joint secretary while Mohit Dubey bagged the post of treasurer.
There were 28 candidates in the fray for the post of 16-member of managing committee. Among the members, Aditi Rajput secured highest votes (985) and Meghna Dhulia got second highest votes (905).
Apart from them, Surabhi Kanga, Pragya Singh, Nalini Ranjan Mohanty, Sunil Negi, Asis Gupta, Shankar Anand, Ravinder Kumar, Abhishek Kumar Singh, Anindya Chattopadhyay, Amitabha Roy Chowdhury, Mohammad Azad, Ashraf Bastavi, PR Sunil, and Pabba Suresh Babu were declared as the managing committee members.
The polling for the PCI Election took place on November 9, wherein a total of 1357 members cast their votes.
Gautam Lahiri has been elected as the president of the club with 1045 votes while Atul Mishra and Arun Sharma managed to poll 133 and 116 votes, respectively. For Secretary General post, Neeraj Thakur defeated Laxmi Devi Aree and secured 913 votes.
For the post of vice president, Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty got 930 votes whereas Rahil Chopra and Prahlad Singh Rajput received 230 and 100 votes, respectively. Afzal Imam was elected as the joint secretary while Mohit Dubey bagged the post of treasurer.
There were 28 candidates in the fray for the post of 16-member of managing committee. Among the members, Aditi Rajput secured highest votes (985) and Meghna Dhulia got second highest votes (905).
Apart from them, Surabhi Kanga, Pragya Singh, Nalini Ranjan Mohanty, Sunil Negi, Asis Gupta, Shankar Anand, Ravinder Kumar, Abhishek Kumar Singh, Anindya Chattopadhyay, Amitabha Roy Chowdhury, Mohammad Azad, Ashraf Bastavi, PR Sunil, and Pabba Suresh Babu were declared as the managing committee members.
The polling for the PCI Election took place on November 9, wherein a total of 1357 members cast their votes.
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