Pune District Central Cooperative Bank, which is controlled by the leaders of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), has once again succeeded in winning the majority of seats of the board members of the bank. But the party suffered a setback when BJP’s Pradeep Kand defeated its strongman Suresh Ghule.
The bank is controlled by none other than the Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and the election was fought under his leadership.
It bears recall that earlier the 14 directors including Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil, Revannath Darvatkar, and others were elected unopposed and the elections were held for 7 seats on Sunday for which the results were announced on Tuesday afternoon.
Winner from BJP Pradeep Kand defeated his rival from the NCP Suresh Ghule with a small margin. It is to be noted that Kand was earlier in the NCP but later joined the BJP.
The winning candidates from NCP include MLA Ashok Pawar, Sunil Chandra, Vikas Dangat, Pooja Butte Patil, Digambar Ganpat and Jagde Nirmala.
MLA Sangram Thopate and MLA Sanjay Jagtap from congress had been elected unopposed as the directors on the board of the bank.
Talking to Indian Cooperative soon after the election the outgoing President Rameshappa Thorat said, “We are very happy that the majority of seats have been won by the leaders of NCP. This shows the voters have elected us this time by an overwhelming majority.”
“We are also thankful to our voters who again give the NCP leaders a big responsibility to run the bank. We will meet their expectations”, said Thorat who was also elected unopposed in the elections.
Out of 21 seats of the board directors, 18 have been won by the leaders of NCP. Congress and BJP won two and one seats respectively.
The election of Chairman and Vice-Chairman will be held in a couple of days. The term of the new team will be five years.
Meanwhile, congratulatory messages to the winning team keep pouring in on social media, and netizens have started congratulating their respective leaders for winning the elections of the bank.
Amidst Covid-19, the bank earned a gross profit to the tune of Rs 282.51 crore in the 2020-21 financial year which is the highest ever in its 104 years of history. The bank crossed a business mix of Rs 19000 crore.