All the 16 seats of the executive committee of the Central Circuit Cine Association have been bagged by the Chowksey Panel. None of the four candidates of the Satyavan Pareek-led Opposition Panel, who contested from the Rajasthan division, could win. All the independent candidates also lost the elections which were held yesterday (25th September) after the 68th annual general meeting of the CCCA. A total of 174 votes were polled at the elections which were an extremely tame affair. Of these, 21 were declared invalid. Therefore, there were a total of 153 valid votes polled.
At the first meeting of the newly-elected executive committee, Lokendra Jain (in picture above) was unanimously elected president. It may be mentioned here that Lokendra Jain had contested the elections from the C.P. Berar Distribution Section. He, as also two other members — Sharang Chandak and Vinod Bhandari — of the Chowksey panel were elected unopposed as all the others from that Section (who were contesting as independent candidates) withdrew from the fray before the elections. The independents who withdrew were Anil Rathi, Pramodkumar Munot and Vipin L. Sharma.
Basant Kumar Laddha was elected vice president. Kailashchand Sharma and Shantilal Lunkad were elected honorary secretary and honorary treasurer respectively.
Those elected to the executive committee (number of votes polled are given in brackets) for 2021-23 were as follows:
C.P. Berar Distribution Section: Lokendra Jain, Sharang Chandak, Vinod Bhandari. All three were declared elected unopposed.
C.P. Berar Exhibition Section: Naresh Chowdhary (111), Prakalp Rathi (129), Sanjay Surana (143). Independent candidates Ashok Jain (23) and Pramodkumar Munot (53) lost. Independent candidate Virendra Lunkad withdrew his candidature.
Chhattisgarh Distribution Section: Dilip Lunia. He was declared elected unopposed as independent candidate Ramgopal Kumawat withdrew from the fray.
Chhattisgarh Exhibition Section: Shantilal Lunkad. He was declared elected unopposed as there was nobody else in the fray from this Section.
C.I. Distribution Section: Basant Kumar Laddha (123), Sandeep Jain (142). Independent candidate Sharad Sharma (41) was declared unelected. Vishal Yadav withdrew. O.P. Goyal and Ashok Rao had decided to withdraw from the elections much earlier.
C.I. Exhibition Section: Aditya Chowksey (125), J.P. Chowksey (133). Anand Yadav was the only independent candidate as the other two independents (Mohit Jain and Pramod Kedia) had withdrawn. Anand Yadav (48) lost. Jitendra Jain had decided to withdraw much before the elections.
Rajasthan Distribution Section: Chandrashekhar Chowdhary (105), Sandeep Bhandari (102). Kishore Kumar Kala (52) and Satyavan Pareek (45), both of who contested from the Opposition Panel headed by Pareek, were declared losers. Independent candidate Basudev Chachan also lost the elections. He polled the least number (only 2) of votes. Rajendra Mamoria and Nandkishore (Nandu) Jalani had decided to withdraw much earlier.
Rajasthan Exhibition Section: Kailashchand Sharma (121), R.K. Shara (87). Nandkishore (Nandu) Jalani (64) and Pawan Kumar Todi (34), both candidates of the Satyavan Pareek-led Opposition Panel, lost the elections. Kishanchand Janiani, who was contesting as an independent candidate, withdrew before the elections. Rajendra Mamoria and Satyavan Pareek had decided to withdraw much earlier.