“I have polled the highest number of votes and must get proper coverage in your cooperative news portal” were the words of the newly elected Director Prem Chandra Munshi to this correspondent.
A shaken man till the other day he sounded confident and assured on the massive turnout of voters in his favour. His rival not only lost but lost miserably. Out of 50 total votes cast Munshi polled 44, his rival a mere 3 and the remaining 3 were found invalid.
“I am proud of representing IFFCO, the friend of farmers and I assure you of my complete devotion to the cause IFFCO stands for”, Munshi told Indian Cooperative.
A cooperator from Bihar Munshi hoped earlier of getting elected unopposed but nomination by Mr X from West Bengal made him somewhat nervous. But his quick meet-the voters campaign convinced him of his inevitable victory.
I even suggested my rival not to waste his vote and cast it in my favour, he is reported to have said jocularly.
Another entrant which proved that IFFCO’s democratic roots are pretty strong was R Ramchandran from Tamil Nadu who was in the fray from Constituency number three.
Mr Ramchandran’s innocent query on how to become Director at IFFCO caught G N Saxena’s attention who guided him through Indian Cooperative. Dr Saxena is the Director of Cooperative Relations at IFFCO.
To the utter surprise of many he polled 25 votes and was just short of 9 votes from the winner- a big feat given the fact he was new to the race and taking on an established leader Mr Y.