Abhishek Ranjan of The Pioneer has been elected as executive member of the Uttar Pradesh State Accredited Correspondence Committee, election of which was held on Sunday and results were declared on Monday morning.
Pranshu Mishra (Times Now) was elected President, Neeraj Srivastava of Navsatta as secretary. Sanjay Sharma and Narendra Srivastava were elected as two vice-presidents while Ajay Srivastava and Amitesh Kumar were elected as joint secretaries. Ashok Mishra was elected as treasurer in a closely contested election where he defeated SM Pari by a margin of just eight votes.
Besides it eight members were also elected as executive members. They are: Abhishek Ranjan, Kazim Raza, Deepak Gidwani, Anup Srivastava, Harish Kansdpal, Kashi Prasad Yadav, Mudit Mathur and Ashish Srivastava.
At least 438 journalists used their right of franchise.
The counting of votes started at 7 pm on Sunday and continued till 4 in the next morning. In a meeting held on Monday the members of election committee Shivshankar Goswami, Kishore Nigam, Vijay Shankar Pankaj, Manoj Chabra and Sanjay Rajan gave certificate to winners.
Addressing members newly elected president Pranshu Mishra said that meeting of the committee will be held every month in which journalists issues will be resolved.