In the elections of Maharashtra Urban Cooperative Banks Federation (MUCBF), the panel led by Sahakar Bharati won the majority of seats but failed to secure a berth in the two high profile constituencies namely Pune and Mumbai. Both have been won by the panel led by the outgoing Chairman Vidyadhar Anaskar, a well known face in the cooperative banking sector.
The era of Anaskar in the MUCBF has come to an end. He had been the Chairman of the cooperative organization for the last more than one decade. Now Sahakar Bharati is set to rule. The elections of Chairman and Vice-Chairman will be held in a couple of days.
The MUCBF board consists of 21 directors out of which 15 have been won by the leaders of RSS affiliated organization Sahakar Bharati whereas five won by Anaskar’s Panel and one seat has been won by an independent candidate. The result was announced today.
The elections were held for 11 seats and 10 directors were earlier elected unopposed. From Pune, Vidyadhar Anaskar and Vijay Dhere won the elections defeating their rivals Cosmos Bank Chairman Milind Kale and Anandkumar Gavade. Anaskar and Dhere got 32 and 20 votes respectively whereas Kale got 19 votes and Gavade received 10 votes.
From Mumbai, all the three candidates standing from the Anaskar’s panel won the elections. Pravin Darekar, Sandeep Gandat and Sitaram Adsul are the winners. The candidates standing from the Sahakar Bharati panel including Dattaram Chalke, Sandeep Prabhu and Kishore Rangnekar suffered defeats in the elections.
The women’s seats were won by the Sahakar Bharati panel that fielded Maharashtra State President Shashi Ahire and Vaishali Awade defeating their rivals from Anaskar’s panel including Shobha Sawant and Sangita Kankariya. Ahire and Awade got 162 and 173 votes respectively.
Rubbishing rumours, Mrs Awade said, “I will not give my support to Anaskar’s panel for the elections of Chairman and Vice-Chairman and I fought the election from Sahakar Bharati. I am their candidate only”, Awade said, who is the Daughter in Law of Prakash Awade, Chairman, Kaijs Bank.
From the Vidarbha region the candidates of the Sahakar Bharati panel Satish Gupta, Chairman, Chikhli UCB and Shantanu Joshi, Vice-Chairman, Akola UCB won the elections.
From the Kokon Region, Sahakar Bharati candidate Thane Bharat Sahakari Bank Chairman Uttam Joshi lost the election and this seat was won by Milind Arolkar who is an independent candidate.
From the Scheduled Caste category Janakalyan Sahakari Bank Chairman Nanasaheb Sonwae from Sahakar Bharati’s panel won the election defeating his rivals Vishnu Ghumre and Jayant Jalgaonkar.
The election was held on Saturday last week and out of 269 eligible voters, 248 cast their votes. Pratap Patil was appointed as the returning officer to oversee the election process.
Sahakar elections are always friendly.Actualy co_operatives are the mission it hardly matters who won?Congratulations to all winning candidates &best luck to work for co_operative spirit of individuals who lost.It hardly makes differance as fedrations is not doing banking but representing to resolve issues in co-operative.