Deka retains post of AXX president
>From our Correspondent
JORHAT, Nov 24: Veteran journalist Kanaksen Deka has been elected as the
president of the Axom Xahitya Xabha for the second consecutive term. In a
vote-count on the sidelines of a full-fledged meeting of the apex literary body
for the outgoing term, 2005-07, at the Radhakanta Handique Bhavan here today,
the incumbent president pipped four other rivals to the post. Deka will preside
over the 69th session of the AXX to be held at Chapor in March next year.
The number-crunching exercise was a closed-door affair. The election officer
deputed by the literary body, Hiranya Kumar Bhattacharya, conducted the
counting exercise in the presence of agents of each of the five candidates in
the fray. Apart from Deka, the four others were Dr Nabin Chandra Sharma, an
expert on folk and culture studies, Dr Satyendra Narayan Goswami, linguist,
Ambika Charan Choudhury, educationist and Indeswar Goswami, novelist and former
vice president of the AXX.
The officials of the literary body remained tight-lipped on the fate of the
candidates during the counting. Bhattacharya formally announced the election of
Deka as the president of the AXX at the executive committee meeting running
concurrently.
The executive committee meeting took a decision to hold the Chapor session of
the AXX over four days.
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