The election schedule for electing the new governing council of (NCUI) has been made public. The voting would take place on 23rd November 2020.
As per the election schedule, “filling of nominations would start from 17th November 2020 and the last date for filing the papers will be 19th November 2020. Scrutiny of nomination will be held on 20th November 2020 and the list of eligible candidates after scrutiny will be out on the same day”.
“Whereas withdrawal of nominations will take place on 21st November 2020 up to 5:00 PM, the publication of the final list of candidates after withdrawal will be released on 21st November 2020 at 6:00 PM. Elections would be held on 23rd November 2020 at National Cooperative Union of India, 3-Siri Institutional Area, August Kranti Marg, New Delhi- 110016”, informs the election schedule.
It further reads that counting of votes would be done immediately after the poll and the result would be announced on the same day i.e. 23rd November 2020. The meeting of the newly elected GC members of NCUI to elect the office bearers would be done immediately after the declaration of results in the boardroom of NCUI.
NAFED Additional Managing Director Sunil Singh has been appointed as the returning officer.
Indian Cooperative talked to many leaders of the outgoing NCUI board and almost all of them looked interested in the re-election. NCUI’s Governing Council has 21 members including a government nominee and the Chief Executive.
The final list of eligible voters for the NCUI elections came out recently. Out of 250 voters only 132 are eligible to cast their votes during the election. Besides, the nomination of 35 delegates have been found to be invalid.
Currently, Chandra Pal Singh Yadav is the President while Bijendra Singh and G H Amin are the two Vice-Presidents.