Patiala Media Club elected Gurpreet Singh Chatha as President
KI Singh/ royalpatiala.in/ Chandigarh
Patiala Media Club, a club of working journalist in print media, electronic media today elected Gurpreet Singh Chatha as its President for next year. 10 members of the Governing Council elected unopposed.
The election process for the selection of new executive body started on November 28, with the filing of nomination for the 11 member governing council. For the 11 executive body posts 12 candidates filled their nomination papers. Vishal Rambani and Gurpreet Singh Chatha filled their paper for the post of President. No other candidate filled the form for the remaining 10 posts.
So, the returning officer Kuljit Singh retired District Publication Officer declared the election for the post of President. Today, on December 1, the polling starts at 9.30 AM.
Out of total 78 members who have voting rights, 76 member’s caste their votes. At 3.30 PM the returning officer Kuljit Singh with Surjit Singh Bhatti and Gurpartap Singh who assisted as Assistant returning officer declared the result of President.
President : Gurpreet Singh Chatha (from Ajit)
Senior Vice President : Manish Sirhindi (from Times of India)
Vice President : Khushveer Toor and Kulvir Singh Dhaliwal (from sach Kahoon and Ajit)
Secy Gen : Rajesh Sharma Panjola (Punjab Kesari)
Secretary : Parmeet Singh (Jagbani)
Cashier : Navdeep Dhingra (Punjabi Jagran)
Press secretary : Karam Prakash (The Tribune)
Joint Secy : (Press) Sanjay Verma (Dainik Jagran)
Joint Secy-(Electronics)- Paramjit Singh Parwana (All India Radio)
Joint secretary : (photojournalist)- Bharat Bhushan Sharma (Hindustan Times)
The whole counting of votes process is video graphed. Later the returning officer gave away the certificates to the executive of Patiala Media Club and thanked its member for conducting the elections in peaceful and friendly atmosphere and congratulated the newly elected team and the whole members of Patiala Media Club
