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In a archetypal successful 28 years, elections to the committee of directors of the high-profile Rajkot Nagrik Sahakari Bank volition beryllium held connected Sunday. Seven polling booths person been acceptable up crossed Saurashtra, Surat and Mumbai for the elections.
As Rajkot’s biggest co-operative slope witnesses 1 of the astir hotly contested elections to a committee of 21 directors, six candidates — including Gujarat BJP treasurer Surendra Patel aka Surendra Kaka — person already been declared uncontested winners. Patel, who is based successful Ahmedabad, is contesting elections to this slope whose chairpersons person been gangly personalities specified arsenic erstwhile main curate Keshubhai Patel and erstwhile Karnataka politician Vajubhai Vala, for the archetypal time.
The elections to the Rajkot constituency is the astir hotly contested with 23 candidates filing nominations for 13 seats. Polling booths person been acceptable up successful Rajkot city, Jetpur, Dhoraji, Morbi, Jasdan, Ahmedabad, Surat and Mumbai.
As per a enactment from Rajkot territory collector who is the predetermination serviceman for the election, this is the archetypal predetermination to a multi-state slope nether the Multistate Co-operative Society Act 2002 which was amended successful 2023 to name a Co-operative Election Authority. The bank, with a deposit basal of Rs 5,139 crore has seen stalwarts of the BJP and RSS arsenic its patrons adjacent arsenic it expanded retired of Saurashtra to unfastened its archetypal subdivision successful Ahmedabad successful 1990 and past to Mumbai successful 2002.
Rajkot District Collector Prabhav Joshi told The Indian Express Saturday that 23 candidates person filed nominations for the 13 seats of Rajkot constituency wherever voting volition beryllium held for those seats. “While polling volition beryllium held successful each the 7 booths for the seats reserved for 2 women candidates for which 3 nominations person been filed”, said Joshi. The different candidates who person been elected uncontested are Navin Babarbhai Patel, Lalitbhai Dhirajlal Vora, Dipak Veljibhai Kakaraniya, Hasmukhbhai Ishwarlal Hindocha and Mangesh Shreerambhai Joshi.
Counting of votes volition beryllium done connected November 19 and results connected the committee of directors volition beryllium declared the pursuing day. Four nominations were rejected by the predetermination bureau of which 2 prospective nominees Kalpak Maniar and Mihir Maniar moved Gujarat precocious court, but their pleas were rejected connected grounds of maintainability recently.
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