The counting of votes for the Indian Medical Association (IMA) Jharkhand Chapter elections held on December 19 was concluded on Saturday at IMA Bhawan in the State Capital. The result was also declared. Dr Arun Kumar Singh from Dhanbad was elected once again President for fourth third term.
Elections were held for four posts, the candidates were elected unopposed for the remaining posts. Dr Arun Kumar Singh got 92 votes, the first runner up, Dr RL Aggarwal got 48 votes and the second runner up Dr RP Srivastava got 40 votes.
There were 2 candidates for the post of Secretary of State. Dr Pradeep Kumar Singh was declared the winner, he got 105 votes and runner up Dr Prabhat Kumar got 76 votes.
Arun Kumar Singh said every two years the association held the election for better functioning of the association and due to the global pandemic this year it was held on a delayed date.At the same time, Headquarter Dr RS Das, North Chotanagpur, Dr Birendra Kumar Pankaj, South Chotanagpur, Dr Ritesh Ranjan, Kolhan, Dr KK Sehgal, Santhal Pargana, Dr RN Prasad, Dr Ajay Kumar Singh from Palamu were elected as Vice President. Secretary Dr Pradeep Kumar Singh got elected for his third term this year. Notably for the post of Treasurer, Dr BP Kashyap was elected unopposed as no one contested the polls against him. Even the opposition team did not field any one against Dr Kashyap. Apart from this, Joint Secretary Headquarter – Dr Sanjay Kumar Jaiswal, North Chotanagpur -- No Nomination, South Chotanagpur – Dr Devnis Khess, Kolhan Dr Ajay Kumar Prasad, Santhal Pargana Dr Gopal Ji Sharan, Palamu Dr Surendra Kumar Singh have been elected.
The new secretary of State, Dr. Pradeep Kumar Singh, while talking to the media, has described it as a victory of IMA and while counting his priority, he has said that first of all we have to understand the problems of our doctors and solve them. In his priorities, he mentioned following things such as clinical establishment act, fair compensation to martyr doctors, medical protection act, timely promotion of government doctors and redressal of problems related to students of various medical colleges of Jharkhand, he added.