Keen golfer and entrepreneur Ravibir Singh Grewal, acting president, who represents the ‘old guard’ in the most prestigious club in the city, the Chandigarh Golf Club in Sector 6, narrowly pips his rival, industrialist.
The ‘old guard’ has held sway in governing the prestigious Chandigarh Golf Club for as far as memory goes, and expectedly it was all along confident of its victory in the annual elections to the post of President and 11-member executive committee of the club for the year 2017. But the rival panel refused to be intimidated by history. It fought gallantly and marshalled all resources at its command to beat the trend. But in the end the president’s post went the expected way, though by a thin margin 94 votes. Ravibir polled 589 and his rival Ravinder 495. A few votes were declared invalid in one of the highest turnouts in the history of the club.
Rohit S. Dagar (664 votes), K S Brar (631), Capt Mohanbir Singh (614), Alamgir S Grewal (574), Dr Jaspreet S Batth (559), Amarinder S Aulakh (551), Lt Col H S Chahal (531), Arvind Bajaj (516), Sanjeev Verma (512), S P S Matharoo (503), Shona A Singh (459), the lone lady in the fray.
Insiders, including in the Ravibir camp, concede it was a hard fought contest. Ravinder Singh Virk and his team made sure they personally met as many members with voting right as possible. Even on the voting day on Sunday the panellists, their family members, supporters and friends were seen frantically wooing voters for maximising the gains from their hectic campaign.