Gurinderjeet Singh Sandhu was elected as the president of Golf Club on Monday. Sandhu defeated his rival Tegbir Singh Sibia to become the Golf Club president for the sixth time.
Punjab cadre retired IAS officer Gurinderjeet Singh Sandhu got 594 votes in his favor during the elections held on Sunday. Sandhu won the elections with a margin of 53 votes to become the Golf club president for the second consecutive term. His rival Tegbir Singh Sibia had got 541 votes.
Sandhu has been the member of Golf club for last 25 years. Earlier, he was elected Golf Club president in the year 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006 and 2012.
The counting of the votes began at 9 am on Monday and the result for the post of president was declared at 10 am.
After winning the elections, Sandhu said, “The Golf Club is the only one in country to receive ISO 9001:2008 certification. And, I would further work to raise the standards of the Golf Club. To solve the ongoing lease controversy of the Club would be the focus.”
He retired as Principal Secretary from Punjab Government on March 31, 2013.He did his schooling from Kapurthala, Punjab and MSc in Physics from Panjab University and later MSc in Social Sciences from UK.
About 1,800 regular members of the club had cast their votes in the elections held on Sunday. For 11 executive posts, a total of 20 candidates are in the fray and the counting for this was still going on during the filing of the report.
The club witnessed a high turnout of over 1142 votes polled till 5 pm on Sunday.
The count of votes in the last five annual elections was 957, 906, 1070, 800 and 1050.