Elections to the Eastern India Motion Pictures Association will be a keenly contested affair. To be held on 29th September in Calcutta, the elections will see three panels battling it out. One panel is led by Ratan Saha, another is by Krishna Daga, and the third, by Piya Sengupta. The Eastern trade feels, it is Ratan Saha’s panel which will romp home victorious. The elections are for 2021-23.
The nominations of the following members have been accepted for the 21-member executive committee:
Producer Section (total seats: 7): Rhitobrata Bhattacharya, Ankit Das, Abhijit Guha, Firdausul Hasan, Suman Maitra, Indrajit Roy, Pijush Chandra (all seven of Ratan Saha’s Save EIMPA panel), Milan Showmik, Krishna Narayan Daga, Puja Ganguly, Syed Tavrez Hasan, Mrityunjoy Roy, Arunima Dey, Molly Paul (all seven of the Krishna Daga panel), Bijoy Kalyani, Piya Sengupta, Anup Sengupta, Pallavi Chatterjee, Pradip Churiwal, Reshmi Mitra, Samiran Das (all seven of the Piya Sengupta panel).
Distributor Section (total seats: 7): Ajoy Kr. Bakliwal, Anjan Bose, Shyamal Dutta, Animesh Ganguly, Tapas Mukherjee, Satadeep Saha, Nawal Kishore Tharad (all seven of the Save EIMPA panel), Krishna Kumar Gupta, Shubhanker Bhowmik, Debabrata Dey, Prasenjit Garai, Kabita Naskar, Sandip Agarwal (all six of the Krishna Daga panel), Saroj Mukherjee, Md. Riaz, Nimai Panja, Ranjay Majumdar, Nikhil Ranjan Paul, Subhas Dutta, Jhuma Paul (all seven of the Piya Sengupta panel).
Exhibitor Section (total seats: 7): Ratan Saha, Ramkrishna Hazra, Vidisha Basu, Partha Sarathi Daw, Sabyasachi Nath, Sunil Kumar Samanta, Rabindra Nath Banik (all seven belonging to the Save EIMPA panel), Subhas Sen, Chiranjit Saha, Madhusudhan Das, Amar Chakraborty, Susanta Marik, Santanu Roychaudhuri (all six belonging to the Piya Sengupta panel). The Krishna Daga panel will not be fielding any candidates in the Exhibitor Section.