Yavatmal: The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) has bagged 17 out of the 21 director seats on offer in the Yavatmal district central cooperative (YDCC) Bank election, and is set to rule the bank for the next five years. Congress party won 9 seats.
After 13 long years, the election for the 21-member board of directors was held on December 21, and the counting on Tuesday. Votes for the post contested by Shiv Sena candidate Rajudas Jadhav and independent candidate Nana Gadbaile had to be recounted as there was a tie.
Eventually, Jadhav was declared elected. He won the election by one vote. Nana is the former district president of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), but he contested the election as an independent from the district Ghat .
The names of elected directors are: Prakash Patil Deosarker (Umarkhed), Anukul Chavan (Pusad), Sanjay Deshmukh (Digras), Shankar Rathod (Darwha), Snehal Bhakre (Ner), Radhedhyam Agrawal (Yavatmal), Aman Gawande (Babhulgaon), Babu Patil Wankhede (Kalamb), Varsha Rajendra Telange (Ralegaon), Prakash Mankar (Pandharkawda), Ashish Lonkar (Ghatanji), Raju Eltiwar (Zari Jamani), Sanjay Derkar (Maregaon), and Tikaram Kongare (Wani).
Besides 16 tehsils, five seats are reserved for women (2), SC/STs, VJ/NTs and OBCs (1 each). Shailaja Ashok Bobade and Smita Kadam have been elected from the women's category. Sanjay Moghe has been elected in the SC/ST category, Shivaji Rathod of Mahagaon in the VJ/NT category, and Manish Patil of Arni in the OBC category, respectively.
Vasant Ghuikhedkar has been elected in the district Ghat. During the last 13 years, Manish Patil was the president for a decade. Later, the lone BJP member Aman Gawande was unanimously elected as the president of the bank . It was the only period, the Congress -NCP alliance was out of power in the bank. Now again, the Congress-led MVA is set to muster power in the bank.
The district deputy registrar Ramesh Katke was the returning officer for the election. The bank was kept under the district collector as its administrator, who was authorized to hold the election. The election was peaceful.