Deepak Joshi elected president of Sachivalaya Sangh

Dehradun

: Deepak Joshi was elected the president of Sachivalaya Sangh for the third successive term on Friday.

Out of the total 1,008 votes that were cast, Joshi received 492 votes and he defeated his nearest rival Narendra Prasad Raturi by a slender margin of 9 votes. The voting started on Friday morning and the results were announced late in the evening hours.

Joshi, in his last term, had strongly opposed the issue of reservation in promotion and changes made in the recruitment roster for government jobs.

For the post of general secretary, Vimal Joshi, who got 317 votes, defeated Rakesh Chandra Joshi by a margin of 39 votes.