Incumbent president of Ranchi Press Club Rajesh Singh retained his post in the Ranchi Press Club managing committee elections here on Monday.
A total of 724 scribes voted to choose its 15 member Managing Committee for Ranchi Press Club on Monday in the State Capital. There were a total of 866 valid voters.
Till the time of filing the report the results for the posts of president, vice president, General Secretary, Treasurer and Joint Secretary were declared.
Counting for the posts of executive committee members was going on at the time of filing of this report.
Pintu Dubey was elected as vice president, Akhilesh Singh was elected as General Secretary, Javed Akhtar was elected as Joint Secretary and Jaishankar Kumar was elected as Treasurer.
The press club election execution committee made some rules to execute smooth and peaceful elections it was mandatory to bring identity card issued by Press Club. There were total eight booths for voting. Booth number 1 to 4 was in the conference hall on the first floor and booth number 5 to 8 is in the parking area. Voting was held from 8 am to 3 pm.
A total of 6 ballot papers were given to every voter. There were five different coloured ballets for the five office bearers, while the sixth ballet was for the members of the executive.
Two ballot boxes were kept at each booths - one for office bearers and the other for executive members. After voting, five ballots with officials were put in the first box and sixth ballot with members in the second box.
Use of pamphlets, pamphlets, hoardings for campaigning and any kind of gathering to influence voters was completely banned. While conducting the electoral process, the election officer had full right to change the rules, programmes according to his judicial discretion as per time and situation.