31 candidates to contest in 11 Amul Dairy blocks

Vadodara/ Anand: A total of 31 candidates are now in the fray to elect a new board of the Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers Union Limited (KDCMPUL) popularly known as Amul Dairy.
Elections for the new board are being held after a gap of five years and have been scheduled at the dairy premises in Anand on August 29. Tuesday was the last day of withdrawal of candidature.
Ten candidates each withdrew their nominations on Monday and Tuesday.
Of the 13 seats of elected representatives, the poll battle will now be held for 11 seats as two candidates, including dairy’s sitting chairman Ramsinh Parmar, have already won uncontested.
There will be no election for the lone seat representing lifetime member as only a single candidate had filed his nomination for the seat. The countdown to the polls has turned interesting with sitting and ex MLAs from both BJP and Congress jumping in the fray.
For the one seat representing Anand block there are five candidates in the fray. Interestingly, two of them are MLAs — Congress MLA from Anand constituency, Kanti Sodha Parmar and BJP MLA from Umnreth constituency, Govind Parmar.
While three candidates each will fight for Khambhat, Mehmedabad, Matar and Virpur blocks, two candidates each will try for Borsad, Petlad, Balasinore, Kapadwanj and Nadiad blocks. In Kathlal block, four candidates are in the fray.
A total of 1,214 representatives of milk societies are eligible to exercise their voting right in the polls. Counting of votes will be done on August 31.