Gopal re-elected president of The Hindu Employees Union

The members of the "The Hindu Employees' Union re-elected the present office bearers with a huge margin of votes.

E. Gopal has been re-elected president of ‘The Hindu Office and National Press Employees' Union in the elections held here on April 8. Mr Gopal defeated its former employee and ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazagam's (DMK's) former Chennai Municipal Corporation Councilor T Sadasivam with the margin of 361 votes.

M. Kamalanathan was re-elected general secretary, while G. Kumar and P.R. Perumal were elected vice-presidents.

S. Martin Thomas will be joint secretary and P. Jayarathinam, treasurer. This is the second consecutive victory for this team of office-bearers. They were first elected in June 2008.

On Monday, the newly elected office-bearers called on the Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu, N. Ram, and other directors of Kasturi and Sons Ltd.

Mr. Gopal polled 650 votes, while the rival candidate, T. Sadasivam, obtained 289 votes.

For the post of general secretary, Mr. Kamalanathan received 659 votes to prevail over E. Sathyanarayanan, who polled 279 votes.

Mr Gopal and his team contested as non-political candidates.

Mr E. Gopal, is a retired editorial staff of The Hindu, as a Chief Sub Editor after serving 28 years.