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Gautam Lahiri will be the next president of the Press Club of India | India News – Times of India
Gautam Lahiri was elected president of the club with 1045 votes, while Atul Mishra and Arun Sharma secured 133 and 116 votes respectively. For the post of General Secretary, Neeraj Thakur defeated Laxmi Devi Aree and secured 913 votes.
For the post of Vice President, Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty got 930 votes, while Rahil Chopra and Prahlad Singh Rajput got 230 and 100 votes respectively. Afzal Imam was elected as joint secretary while Mohit Dubey took over as treasurer.
There were 28 candidates in contention for the position of 16 members of the executive committee. Among the members, Aditi Rajput secured the highest votes (985) and Meghna Dhulia the 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 appointed members of the executive board.
The PCI election took place on November 9, with a total of 1,357 members voting.
