Parth, Debashis to lead IJA
Two young turks, K.D. Parth of Rajasthan Patrika and Debashis Das of Dainik Statesman, will lead the Indian Journalists’ Association (IJA) in 2023. The two have been unanimously elected the President and General Secretary respectively of the 100-year-old organisation.
The Centenary Celebrations that got off on Sunday, March 26, 2023 in the presence of Hon’ble Governor of West Bengal, Dr. C.V. Ananda Bose, will end by the 100th AGM scheduled for March in 2024. Messrs Parth and Das will be in the centre of planning of the rest of the celebrations.
Mr. Parth is the news editor of Rajasthan Patrika in Kolkata and Mr. Das is the Chief Reporter of Dainik Statesman. Both are very active journalists and would bridge the gap between the old and the new in the organisation.
The duo has inherited a large part of the outgoing Executive Council but got new blood in certain key posts. The new team is a good balance of city and district representation
The outgoing general secretary Mr. Sekhar Sengupta has been requested to take up the post of hony. Treasurer by the top guns and he agreed to the task. The outgoing president, Mr. S. Sabanayakan, will be co-opted to maintain the continuity and to help and advise the new office-bearers.
The New Team:
President: K.D. Parth (Rajasthan Patrika)
Vice-Presidents: Shyamal Mukherjee (Sukhabar) & Taraknath Roy (Purbakshan)
General Secretary: Debashis Das (Dainik Statesman)
Secretary: Debjani Laha Ghosh (R-Plus TV Channel)
Assistant Secretaries: Purnendu Chakraborty (Dainik Statesman) & Sukhendu Acharya (Aajkaal)
Treasurer: Sekhar Sengupta (Dainik Statesman)
EXECUTIVE Council Members:
Amitabha Das Sharma (The Hindu), Tapas Ghosh (The Telegraph), Kamalesh Pandey (Sanmarg), Abdul Odud (Puber Kolam), Jagannath Bhoumick (Sangbad Prabhati), Aminur Rahman (Sambad), Jayanta Dutta (Aajkaal Parshu), Tapesh Kumar Basu (Halfil), Aditya Narayan Chowdhury (Khabar Aajkaal Parshu), Goshai Chandra Das (Khas Samachar), Robin Chatterjee (Srijani Samay), Ashish Kumar Ghosh (Yadavkeshari), Biplab Bhattacharya (Bengal Editor), Amit Ukil (Freelance), Chandra Mitra Shee (Dainik Statesman).
