A total of 35 members from the Prime Class, 11 members from the Associate Class-I, and three members from TV Programme Producers are in the fray for the executive committee of the Indian Motion Picture Producers’ Association (IMPPA). There are two groups mainly — one led by K.C. Bokadia, and the other, by Bhojpuri film producer Abhay Kumar Sinha. Elections of the IMPPA will be held tomorrow (9th April) in Bombay at Valia Hall, Barfiwala School, Cosmopolitan Education Society, D.N. Nagar, C.E. Society Road, next to Police Station, Andheri West.
A total of 16 members will be elected from the Prime Class while the Associate Class-I will have five representatives in the executive committee. Two members will be elected from TV Programme Producers.
The producers contesting from the Prime Class are:
Abhay Kumar Sinha, Ajay Srivastava, Ashoke Pandit, Atul Patel, Babubhai Thiba, Bharat N. Patel, Chirag Dhariwal, Divya H. Patel, Dr. Sanjay Bindal, Durga Prasad Majumdar, Ghanshyambhai Gordhanbhai Talaviya, Haresh Patel, Harsukhbhai K. Dhaduk, Hyder Jamil Hussain Kazmi, Jagdishchandra B. Bhariya, Jai Prakash Shaw, K.C. Bokadia, Krunali Madke, Mehboob Shaikh alias Sikandar Khan, Nishant Ujjwal, Pradeep Singh, Prakash Atmaram Jadhav, Rajan Batra, Rajkumar R. Pandey, Ratnakar Kumar, Ritesh Kumar Thakur, Roshan Singh, Sanjay Bhogilal Patel, Satish Shivappa Poojary, Sidharth Bansilal Jaaju, Surendra Verma alias Tinu Verma, Utpal Chinubhai Modi, Vicky Ranawat, Vinod B. Gupta and Yusuf Shaikh.
Producers from the Associate Class-I in the fray are:
Amit Kumar Bokadia, Darshan Bagga, Dilip Gulati, Kukoo Kohli, Laxman Sikoo More, Mahendra Dhariwal, Rakesh Nath Rikku, Sushama Shiromanee, Sunil Kumar Boobna, Thakur Tapssvi and Vijay V. Patkar.
Manish Jain, Meenakshi Sagar and Sanjeev Kumar Singh will be the TV Programme Producers in the fray.
The elections will be conducted from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.