Jitendra, Saurabh Gaur elected prez, secy of powerlifting assn

Kanpur: Jitendra Pal and Saurabh Gaur have been elected as president and secretary respectively of Kanpur Powerlifting Association during the annual general meeting held at Motilal Kheira School auditorium on Monday.Saurabh, who was elected unopposed, got the second term in succession. During the AGM, Rahul Shukla, secretary, UP Powerlifting and Kushal Sahani, observer, Kanpur Olympic Association were also present and witnessed the election process.After the election, it was decided to hold district and state-level tournaments in Kanpur and select a team for the sub junior and senior national championship to be held in September, said Saurabh Gaur. The members of the executive are:Patron-Vivek Mishra, Rajesh Shukla, Ajay Dwivedi, president- Jitendra Pal, vice-president- Neeraj Kumar, Mohit Kumar. Champa Ramani, Abhishek Jain, secretary-Saurabh Gaur, treasurer-Sudhanshu Arya, assistant secretary-Manish Mishra, Anil Kushwaha, Prakash Bajpai ,Mayank Gupta, Shanitikeya Awasthi, Abhishek Pandey, technical committee-Amit Bajpai, Anchit Agarwal, Harshit Gupta, legal advisor-Shashank Shukla, media coordinator-Abhilesh Sinha, Abhyudaya Shukla, tournament committee-Rahul Tiwari ,Rohit Sonkar, Manoj Singh Chauhan and Sonam Rajput. tnn