Poonch, Aug 27—In the first ever election of Journalist Association of District Poonch held at historic Town Hall, Aijaz Qazmi, proprietor Taskeen group of Publications was elected as the president. N S Talwar, district bureau chief ANI was elected as the chairman of the association, GM Jaffrey of Kashmir Times as senior vice president, AK Mishri of Mandate as vice president, Devinder Singh as general secretary, Munish Sharma as cashier, Wajahat Bukhari as secretary, Mohd Bashir as PRO, Akhilesh and Yaseen Shamma as joint secretaries, Gulshan Kumar and Swinkle Chadda as publicity secretaries.
An advisory committee comprises KD Maini, Pradeep Khanna, P S Kapoor< anubhav Mishri, Syed Sajid Qazmi, Gurpreet Singh, Atul Sharma, I A Salaria, Bansi Lal, Syed Imran, G Q Sheikh, S Krishan Singh, N K Datta, Rifaqat Ali and Ishrat Bhat.
Cabinet Minister Gulchain Singh Charak, Deputy Commissioner J S Pachnanda, Dy SP Rafiq Choudhary were present at the election of the District Journalist Association, Poonch. While speaking on the occasion, Gulchain Singh Charak asked the media fraternity to to highlight the grievances of common people and also appreciate the developmental activities carried out by the state government.
Deputy Commissioner, Poonch JS Pachnanda, assured the media persons of full help and support from district administration to the newly elected body of journalist and asked them to be transparent in their working.
Those, who were present on the occasion included advocate Rajinder Singh, Congress leader Yashpal Sharma, BAR president Mohd Zaman, President Dashnami Akhara, Basant Ram Sharma. The elected members were later taken in a procession which passed through main bazaars and culminated at Bus Stand, Poonch.
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