Thane Branch Elections: People voted for the panel supported by existing committee

• Thane branch elections like other branches,too were fought very fiercely. There were two panels in the fray. Sources says one plan is said to be supported by first chairman of Thane branch Raj Advani and the other by the people in existing managing committee. The other panel had a very good support of three study circles, Thane study circle, Dombivali study circle and Kalyan study circle.
• Total votes casted in the elections were 895. It was indeed a very high no. of turnout in the election.
• The panel in leadership of existing managing committee member Pankaj Parekh won and did the clean sweep by getting all the eight members elected from their panel.
• Past chairman WIRC, Vipul Choksi was the returning officer and he did splendid job to handle the elections. In all fiercely contested elections, the role of returning officer becomes very very crucial. My compliments to Vipul Bhai.

Here is the list of candidates won:

Sr. No.	Name of Candidates	Votes
1	Pankaj Parekh	504
2	Madhukar Chavan	490
3	Jaydeep Sahastrabuddhe	484
4	Anand Gharpure	476
5	Sameer Sarandhar	455
6	Navinchandra Dedhia	448
7	Rajendra Chaplot	429
8	Madhav Khisti	426