A demand for the elections of vacant positions on the Board of apex national cooperative body NCUI is building up in the wake of quashing of the candidature of Gurpratap Singh Khushalpur who was a delegate from Punjab State Cooperative Labour and Construction Federation Ltd (Labourfed) Chandigarh.
RCS of Punjab appointed an Administrator in Labourfed in November 2015. And later when the elections took place in January 2016 Khushalpur failed to be elected.
He had defeated Ashok Dabas amidst charges of rigging by the latter.
Another seat lying vacant is from the category of State Cooperative Unions as none was elected from the States of Madhya Pradesh, 
Chhattisgarh, and Orissa. The seat remained vacant since the date of last election in March 2015 and a demand for election on this seat is growing among cooperators.
Lakhan Lal Sahu’s nomination papers were rejected on ground of his ineligibility. Sahu was in the GC earlier.
Talking to Indian Cooperative Ashok Dabas said “I have written letters to both the NCUI and the Central Registrar requesting for holding the elections sooner than later. It is an apex body and it should not go unrepresented for long”, he added.
“They should immediately proceed for conduct of elections of the subject vacant seats of the Governing Council of NCUI and fill the vacant seats by the duly elected delegates of the member societies of NCUI from the respective constituencies’, he concluded.
Observers say Dabas’s chance of being re-elected has brightened up in the given situation.
