SVP sweeps ADCCB elections by winning 14 seats; Oppn. grabs five seats

Aurangabad, March 22:

In a shocking development, the MLA and sitting director of Aurangabad District Central Co-operative (ADCC) Bank Haribhau Bagade has lost the Board of Directors' election (BoD) today. However, his panel's other candidates, including Nitin Patil (sitting chairman) and sitting director Abdul Sattar, won the elections, apart from the first-timers Satish Chavan and Ambadas Danve.

There was tough fight between Shetkari Vikas Panel (SVP)-led by Bagade and Shetkari Sahakari Bank Vikas Panel (SSBVP)-led by Kalyan Kale. There are 21 board of directors (BoD) in ADCCB. Hence the fate of 48 candidates in the fray was sealed by the voters on March 21. The election for 18 seats was held as two candidates were already declared as elected unopposed, while no nomination was filed from Personal Constituency. Of the total 1,114 voters, the voting percentage recorded was 93.90 per cent.

The counting of votes began today at 9 am and got completed by 2 pm, under the supervision of the election returning officer (ERO) Mukesh Barhate. SVP candidates got elected on 14 seats, SSBVP won five seats, and one winner is an independent candidate. EGS minister Sandeepan Bhumre and the minister of state (MoS) Abdul Sattar confirmed that the SVP's 14 candidates had won the elections and expressed their sorrow over the defeat of their panel leader Haribhau Bagade (123 votes). " We will work by taking all of them together with us, and Nitin Patil will be our candidate for the post of chairman," they underlined.

Election for 18 seats

The names of winning candidates from various constituencies and the votes polled by them (in bracket) are as follows:

Non-Agriculture Societies constituency (five seats) - Of 14 candidates in the fray, the first three winners of SVP are Nitin Patil (176 votes), Satish Chavan (151 votes) and Ambadas Danve (160 votes), while Jagannath Kale (176 votes) is of SSBVP and Abhishek Jaiswal (147 votes) is an independent.

Agriculture Co-operative Societies (nine seats) - two candidates EGS minister Sandeepan Bhumre (SVP) and Kiran Patil Dongaonkar (SSBVP) were already declared as elected unopposed. The names of seven winners declared today includes SVP's Javed Shabbir Patel (39 votes-Aurangabad), Suhas Shirsaat (36 votes-Phulambri), Appasaheb Ramkrishna Patil (68 votes-Vaijapur), Arjun Gade (63 votes- Sillod), Surekha Prabhakar Kale (22 votes-Soyegaon), Manoj Rathod (60 votes-Kannad) and SSBVP's Krishna Patil Dongaonkar (55 votes-Gangapur).

Agriculture Marketing and Agriculture Produce Processing Society constituency, there were three candidates in the fray. SVP's Abdul Sattar (33 votes) defeated Prakash Mutha by 26 votes.

SC/ST constituency - SVP's Dr Satish Gaikwad (598 votes) defeated Dr Pawan Dongre by 200 votes.

Womens' constituency (two seats), out of eight candidates in fray, SVP's Mandabai Mane (573 votes) and SSBVP's Parvatibai Jadhav (498 votes) won the election.

OBC constituency, SSBVP's Devyani Krishna Patil (536 votes) defeated Ankush Randhe by 51 votes.

VJNT/SEBC constituency, SVP's Dinesh Pardeshi (706 votes) defeated Shahnawaz Khan by 398 votes.

Four women directors on board

Two women Mandabai Mane and Parvatibai Jadhav, have been elected from Womens' constituency, while Devyani Patil and Surekha Kale have been elected from OBC and Agriculture Co-operative Society constituencies, respectively.

Fate of sitting directors

The sitting directors Nitin Patil, Abdul Sattar and Kiran Patil Dongaonkar, managed to retain their seats, but their colleagues on board Haribhau Bagade (Aurangabad), Ranganath Kale (Soyegaon), Pundalik Jangale (Phulambri) and Ashok Magar (Kannad) lost the election.

It may be noted that the Gangapur MLA Prashant Bamb had extended his support to SVP's candidate Jayaram Salunke (42 votes), who lost the election. On the other hand, SVP's Appasaheb Patil succeeded in retaining the seat of his father Ramkrishna Baba Patil (from Vaijapur).

150 invalid votes

A total of 150 votes from various constituencies were declared invalid during the counting held today. The majority of the invalid votes were from Womens', SC, VJNT and OBC constituencies.