K Vikram Rao, who worked with The Times of India earlier, was elected unopposed, IFWJ's central returning officers Debashish Bose and Upendra Padhi announced here today after scrutinising the presidential nominations in which 18 out of a total of 25 constituent unions had filed the nomination papers in his support.
They included Manipur, Kerala, Jammu and Kashmir, Delhi, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Bihar among others.
The returning officers said the process of elections of 250 national councilors had begun and the nationwide poll process will be completed by October.
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