Senior journalists Amar Devulapalli and Sabina Inderjit have been unanimously elected as president and secretary-general respectively of Indian Journalists Union (IJU), a body of working journalists in the country.
Devulapalli and Inderjit are expected to assume their posts in the plenary session of the Union to be held shortly, a release by the IJU said today.
Devulapalli, a Hyderabad-based journalist with four decades of professional experience, is the consulting editor of Saakshi daily, and anchors a popular news hour program Fourth Estate' on Saakshi TV five days a week.
He was also the secretary-general of IJU.
Inderjit is a senior journalist based in Delhi and working as Associate Editor of the Indian News and Features Agency (INFA), founded by her grandfather and veteran editor Durga Das. Earlier, she worked as special correspondent in The Times of India.
Outgoing president S N Sinha, former Secretary-General K Sreenivas Reddy and others congratulated Devulapalli and Inderjit on their election as president and secretary-general of the IJU respectively, the release said.