Red Cross Society

MALDA, June 24:- After two years the district magistrate Mr. C R Das has been able to resolve stalemate in Malda Red Cross Society last evening. Since March 2006 the Malda Red Cross Society could not provide services to people due to a feud between the present secretary and former secretary of this organisation. The present secretary of Malda Red Cross, Mr. Nikhil Behari Gupta, alleged that the former secretary did not agree to hand over charges to him and denied giving keys to the iron chests where the official documents were kept. The former district magistrate, late Abhijit Choudhury had tried hard to take over the keys from his custody but the former secretary Mr. Dhirendranath Das had not agreed to hand over the keys him. It could be noted that Mr. Das, became a member of the Malda Red Cross, as president of Malda Bar Association, a few years ago and became secretary of that organisation when Dr. Prodyot Ghosh , resigned. Later Nikhil Behari Gupta was elected as president of Bar Association Election and became a member of Malda Red Cross. Mr. Gupta was elected uncontested as secretary of Malda Red Cross in 2006. Yesterday the district magistrate's representative Mr. Subho Mukherjee took an initiative to hand over charges from the former secretary to the present one, officially verifying all records and documents in presence of other majority members of the organisation. The entire process was completed late last night. Mr. Gupta said: “Following the instruction of the Malda district magistrate I tried hard to run the organisation afresh. We could not provide some important services to the people due to this stalemate”.