The Citizen's Seema Mustafa becomes first elected president of the Editors Guild of India

Seema Mustafa, founder-editor of the Citizen, has been elected president of the Editors Guild of India.

The guild held its first ever election on Zoom on Friday, Indian Journalism Review reports. Mustafa defeated the Sunday Guardian's MD Nalapat with 87 votes to 51. Sanjay Kapoor was elected as general secretary, after contesting against Smita Prakash, with 90 votes to 50. Anant Nath of the Caravan was elected treasurer unopposed.

Earlier, new office-bearers were selected based on consensus, not by election.

Mustafa, Kapoor and Nath replace Shekhar Gupta, Ashok Bhattacharya, and Sheela Bhatt respectively on the executive committee of the guild. Both Gupta and Bhatt congratulated the new office-bearers on Twitter.

As we wrap our innings at @IndEditorsGuild gratitude to Gen Secy @AshokAkaybee treasurer @sheela2010 & the stellar members of our Exec Committee.

We may argue in the world of ideas, compete in markets, yet unite in a good common cause.

Thanks all for a wonderful ride together.

— Shekhar Gupta (@ShekharGupta) October 17, 2020

Many congratulations to the new team, @seemamustafa as President, @sanjaykpr as general secretary and Anant Nath as treasurer. Thanks are in order to the fine election commission of three, @sachidelhi @sardesairajdeep and @qwnaqvi as well as the old team. @IndEditorsGuild https://t.co/1d07PzlFBt

— Seema Chishti (@seemay) October 17, 2020

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