Mysore :

K. Deepak was elected as the President of Mysore District Journalists Association (MDJA) in the elections to the governing body held yesterday.

Deepak defeated his lone rival Kundur Umesh Bhat by a margin of 28 votes to bag the top post.

S.T. Ravikumar was elected City Vice-President defeating his rival Jayanth by a margin of 15 votes. Gajendra was elected Rural Vice-President defeating his rival Bherya Mahesh by a margin of 47 votes.

Lokesh Babu was elected General Secretary defeating his rival Subramanya by a margin of 34 votes. Srikanta Swamy was elected City Gen. Secretary defeating his rival Sashikumar by 58 votes.

Madhusudhan was elected as Treasurer defeating his rival Raghavendra by 29 votes. H.S. Sachhith was earlier elected unopposed as Rural Secretary.

The following were elected to the Executive Committee: Manju Kote, Ram, Hampa Nagaraj, Vatal B. Anand, D.C. Diddahalli Raghu, D.N. Mahendra, Nanjangud Madhu, Dharmapura Narayan, Ramachandra Ganga, Lakshminarayan Yadav, Nagesh Panathale, V. Mahesh Kumar (Kollegal Mahesh), M. Ravi, H.M. Aravind, P. Rangaswamy.

Interestingly, Ram and P. Rangaswamy, who have been elected to the Executive Committee are brothers.

In all, 50 candidates had contested for 22 posts, with two candidates each contesting for the posts of President, city Vice-President, Rural Vice-President, General Secretary, Secretary and Treasurer and a total of 38 for 15 Executive Committee posts. The election to MDJA Executive Body (2014-17) was held between 8 am and 2 pm yesterday, with 274 members out of the total electoral strength of 292 casting their vote.

Senior Journalists Echanur Kumar and M.S. Kashinath supervised the election.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News  / July 14th, 2014