Panaji: TOI chief lensman wins GUJ prez poll with over 100 votes

PANAJI: Chief photographer of The Times of India, Rajtilak Naik, was voted president of the Goa Union of Journalists (GUJ) in elections held here on Saturday. Rajtilak won by a record margin of over 100 votes. He secured 160 votes, while his opponent Vasant alias Jayant Katkar, got 43.
Chief photographer of The Times of India, Rajtilak Naik
Of the 304 eligible members of GUJ, 67.4%, or 205 journalists, cast their votes.Two votes were declared invalid.
Rajtilak is a two-time GUJ executive committee member (2005-07 and 2009-11) and a former president of the Photo Journalists Association of Goa.
He will now select the general secretary from the 10 executive committee members also elected on Saturday. The executive committee include Vasudev Pagi (156 votes), Sagun Gawade (151), Ganesh Shetkar (126), Glenn Costa (126), Kanzil Rodrigues (112), Kailas Naik (102), Audumer Shinde (101), Pramod Thakur (99), Tulsidas N Raul (98) and Suraj Nandrekar (93).
Nandrekar and Narayan Pissurlekar were tied at 93 votes after counting ended and the winner was decided by a draw of lots. Pissurlekar will be co-opted in the executive committee.