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Sharjah: ’Chilly Willy’ Satish Venkataramana is new prez of Karnataka Sangha

Sharjah, Feb 23: Satish Venkataramana, one of the dynamic Mangalurean community leaders and successful entrepreneur of ’Chilly Willy’ fame in the UAE, has been unanimously elected as the president of Karnataka Sangha, Sharjah.

Satish, popularly known as ’Chlly Willy’ is a supporter of Indian cultural events in the UAE irrespective of caste, creed, language, religion and region, and is particularly popular among the Kannadigas in the UAE.

 President Satish Venkataramana

The Annual General Meeting of Karnataka Sangha Sharjah was held on Saturday the 21st February, 2015 at Fortune Plaza Hotel, Ghusais and the meeting started at around 8 PM with prayer by Rohini Ananth.  Presided by foregoing President Shantaram Achar who welcomed all the Working Committee Members and briefed them of the success of all the previous year’s activities. He thanked all the Members for their strong support during his tenure.  Later General Secretary, Shashikant Kanangi read out the annual report while Treasurer, Anand Bailoor read out the annual accounts report to the Members.  Soon after that was the vote of thanks by the previous committee just before going with the new committee formation.

Patron of Karnataka Sangha Sharjah, Mark Denis later chaired the AGM and briefed on the future strategies of the Sangha while smoothly conducting the formation of the new committee for the year 2015 with oath taking ceremony.

The following are the newly elected office bearers of Karnataka Sangha Sharjah for the year 2015:-

President        : Satish Venkataramana
Vice Presidents        : M.E. Moolur / Sughandhraj Bekal
General Secretary    : Ananth N.
Joint Secretary        : Abdul Razak
Treasurer        : Shashikant Kanangi
Joint Treasurer        : Anand Bailoor
Entertainment Secretary: Vishwanath Shetty
Joint Ent. Secretary    : Rajesh Kuthar
Sports Secretary    : Sandeep Rao
Joint Sports Secretary    : Jeevan Kuckian

Newly elected Women Members for the newly elected Working Committee

Manjula Ganesh Rai
Suvarna Satish Poojary
Rajani Jeevan Kuckian
Usha Vishwanath Shetty
Rohini Ananth
Wahida Abdul Razak

The newly formed Committee was congratulated by the Advisory Committee Members, Praveen Shetty, Ganesh Rai, Harish Sherigar & Prabhakar Ambalathare who advised them of the future strategies and vision of the Sangha.

Newly elected President, Satish Venkataramana thanked all the Members for electing him while seeking continued support from them during his current tenure for every success.

The meeting got concluded with buffet dinner while Rajesh Kuthar conducted the programme.