Nagpur doctor to lead non-political SMSN forum’s state body

NAGPUR: After the politically active faction of Save Merit Save Nation (SMSN) forum formed its state-level body two months ago, the non-political faction also announced its state-level executive body on Tuesday.
Dr Sanjay Deshpande from Nagpur will be state president of this body, while Shreekrishna Buty will be working president. Dr Anup Marar took over as general secretary.
With Dr Anil Laddhad being state president of the politically active faction, now both factions of SMSN are having leadership from Nagpur and office-bearers from other cities across Maharashtra.
Marar claimed that this faction affiliated to the Save Merit Foundation is the ‘original group’ and it has all legal rights on the intellectual property like logo. “We have taken strong objection to the misuse of our logo. The SMSN logo is intellectual property of Save Merit Foundation and can only be used by its affiliate organizations which agree to its core non-political non-communal and social sensitization movement ideology,” said Marar.
The logo of SMSN was designed by Shree Graphics and officially purchased by Save Merit Foundation, he added.
The newly formed SMSN group’s state body will soon be meeting chief minister and all guardian ministers of Maharashtra to highlight the need to limit reservation within 50%.
Members of the new body include Utpala Mulawkar as state coordinator and Shrirang Choudhary as legal adviser. Sachin Poshattiwar will be treasurer with Rajesh Atal and Roy Thomas as joint treasurers. Anand Dave (Pune), Pramod Pusrekar (Beed), RG Chandak (Nagpur) and Ravindra Halsagikar (Solapur) will be vice-presidents. Ashutosh Gotey (Nagpur), Sachin Wazalvar (Chandrapur), Mahesh Moharir (Aurangabad) and Ankit Kane (Pune) will serve as secretaries.
State regional coordinators are Abhijeet Ambhaikar — West Vidarbha, Prashant Aarwey — East Vidarbha, Aabha Nemivant — Marathwada and Vijay Datar — Mumbai.
Sanjay Heda, Manoj Mujumdar and Pranesh Yevatikar are conveners of government employees cell, while Aparna Ranadive will look after medical admission cell. Brijesh Segan, Uday Maha, Aarti Laddha, Santosh Ranjalkar, S Soni, Kamalkishor Agrawal, Praveen Kulkarni, Parmeshwar Pathak, Devendra Muley, Pappu Chhangani, Shubhangi Mundhada, Vidyut Khandewale, Hemant Pathak, Deepak Sakhare, Amit Pendharkar, Yashashree Madiwale, Deepak Saraswat and Vikram Mardhekar are the executive committee members.