Ranjit Kumar Rout Elected President, Tapan Kumar Mohanty General Secretary of Jajpur District Journalists’ Union.
Jajpur,06/11(PPT):The Jajpur District Journalists’ Union (JDU), affiliated with the Odisha Union of Journalists (OUJ), elected its new office-bearers at its biennial conference, election and felicitation ceremony held at the DRDA Conference Hall in Jajpur on Friday. Senior journalist Ranjit Kumar Rout was elected president, while Tapan Kumar Mohanty was elected general secretary of the district union.
Jajpur MLA Sujata Sahu inaugurated the programme. Prasanna Mohanty, president of the Odisha Union of Journalists and senior member of the Press Council of India, attended as the chief guest. Kisan Rout, state secretary of OUJ, was the keynote speaker. Senior social worker Karnat Keshari Das, Professor Dr Batakrishna Mohapatra, State Tribunal Committee chairman Abhaya Pati, Legal Cell chairman Rajib Mohanty, Disciplinary Committee chairman Aditya Mekap, former state secretary Samarajit Mohanty and outgoing district president Arun Kumar Routray were among the dignitaries present. The district union also felicitated Sitikantha Kanungo on his promotion to the rank of Superintendent of Police.
In the election, Niranjan Panda was elected working president. Kaushik Das, Hemanta Jena, Ekadashi Sethi, Subrat Jena, Debaprasad Sahu and Gyan Ojha were elected vice-presidents. Biswajit Pati, Sushant Beuria, Surendra Samal, Ashutosh Mishra, Devendra Padhi and Ajay Sahu were elected secretaries. Samar Bijay Saran was elected organising secretary and Rajakishore Mohanty treasurer. The election was conducted by returning officer Bijay Mohanty.
During the programme, a delegation of more than ten servitors of the Maa Biraja Sevaayat Parishad, led by Debiprasad Pani, presented the sacred *Angalagi Pata* and *Agyanmala* of Goddess Maa Biraja to the union as a mark of divine blessings.
The union also entrusted Purnachandra Satapathy with the responsibility of district tribunal chairman, Prashant Kumar Jena with journalists’ welfare, Manas Tripathy with the Legal Cell, Ajay Rana with the Disciplinary Committee and Akshaya Kumar Biswal with the Social Media Committee.
The newly elected team is expected to strengthen the organisation, safeguard journalists’ interests and work towards addressing the professional challenges faced by media persons across Jajpur district.