We analyze the exclusive two-body nonleptonic decays of meson to ground as well as radially ecited charmonium states and a light meson , induced by the transition. Within the framework of relativistic independent quark (RIQ) model based on a flavor-independent interaction potential in scalar-vector harmonic form, we calculate the weak form factors from the overlapping integrals of meson wave function obtained in this model. Using the factorization approximation, we predict the branching fraction for the , which can be compared with future theoretical predictions. Branching fraction for decay is found to be in good agreement with the data from LHCb Collaboration, whereas for , it is found to be within the detection ability of the CMS Collaboration. We also predict the ratio: which is in broad agreement with the data from LHCb and CMS Collaborations. These results indicate that the present approach works well in the description of exclusive nonleptonic decays within the framework of the RIQ model.