Vineet Jain (L) and Vijay Kumar Chopra

NEW DELHI: Vijay Kumar Chopra , Chief Editor of the Punjab Kesari Group of newspapers and Vineet Jain , Managing Director of Bennett, Coleman and Company Limited(BCCL), the publisher of Times of India, were on Friday unanimously elected Chairman and Vice-Chairman respectively of Press Trust of India (PTI), the country's premier news agency.

The elections took place at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the news agency following the company's 71st annual general meeting.

Besides Chopra and Jain, the PTI Board members are Mahendra Mohan Gupta (Dainik Jagran), K N Shanth Kumar (Deccan Herald), Riyad Mathew (Malayala Manorama), Aveek Kumar Sarkar (Anandabazar Patrika), M P Veerendra Kumar (Mathrubhumi), R Lakshmipathy (Dinamalar), Hormusji N Cama (Bombay Samachar), Praveen Someshwar(Hindustan Times), Justice R C Lahoti, Deepak Nayyar, Shyam Saran and J F Pochkhanawalla.

Chopra succeeds N Ravi, Publisher and former Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu.

Vineet Jain has previously been chairman of PTI in 2010.

