Sabanayakan, Sekhar Sengupta re-elected
The Indian Journalists’ Association, the oldest trade union body of journalists in the country, had its annual general meeting on March 27 at Press Club, Kolkata. The well-attended meeting re-elected Messrs S. Sabanayakan and Sekhar Sengupta as President and General Secretary respectively for another one year term.
The association, which stepped into its 100th year, had its first executive meeting on Monday, April 18, 2022, at the IJA office where the following office-bearers and Committee members were decided.
The meeting finalized to begin the association’s centenary celebrations on June 22, 2022, with a panel discussion on the future of trade unionism. All the top trade union leaders of the state will be invited to participate in the programme. Chief Minister, Smt. Mamata Banerjee will be approached to inaugurate the celebrations.
A centenary celebrations committee will be formed in the next meeting in May. A number of sub-committees will also be formed to focus on the core issues concerning the members and the association.
THE TEAM
President: S. Sabanayakan
General Secretary: Sekhar Sengupta
Vice-Presidents: Taraknath Roy and Shyamal Mukherjee
Secretary: Debasish Das
Assistant Secretaries: Sukhendu Acharya and Kamlesh Pandey
Treasurer: Amitabha Das Sharma
Members: Supriyo Bandyopadhyay, K.D. Parth, Tapas Ghosh, Purnendu Chakraborti, Abdul Odud, Debjani Laha Ghosh, Jagannath Bhowmick, Aminur Rahaman, Jayanta Dutta, Tapesh Kumar Basu, Adityanarayan Chowdhury, Gosai Chandra Das, Rana Mukherjee, Ashish Kumar Ghosh, Robin Chatterjee.
Coopted: Shyamal Naskar, Prabhat Ghosh, Chandra Mitra Shee, Prosenjit Dutta, Amit Ukil.
Former minister Manish Gupta (left) exchanging greetings with party colleagues and ministers Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay (centre) and Manas Ranjan Bhunia (right) before the start of the IJA AGM at Press Club, Kolkata, on March 27.
IJA President, S. Sabanayakan, welcoming minister Manas Ranjan Bhunia to the AGM.
General Secretary Sekhar Sengupta (centre) and President, S. Sabanayakan, welcome well known artiste at the start of the AGM .
