Pune Branch Elections Results

Congratulations to all:

 

SR NO	NAME	No. of Votes
1	CA  DHAMANKAR REKHA VIVEK	678
2	CA INAMDAR SHRIPAD SUBHASH	668
3	CA AGARWAL NARENDRA SURESH	625
4	CA DHONGDE JAGDEESH VISHWANATH	593
5	CA KULKARNI VIJAYKANT JAGANNATH	554
6	CA PAWAR  SANJAY NARAYAN	553
7	CA MUNDADA SATYANARAYAN GOVERDHANLAL	540
8	CA GOVANDE ANANT MOHAN	506

 

Those who couldnot make it:

 

9	CA SHAHA SUNIL	553
10	CA DHOBLEPATIL  SAIDEEP SHANKARRAO	323
11	CA JAIN DINESH PARASMAL	315
12	CA GADO SHOBHANA EKNATH	307
13	CA OSWAL PRAKASH MANGILAL	193
14	CA PANDE ASHISH KUMAR	116
15	CA CHOUDRY HANAMANTHRAO REVANASIDDAPPA	94

 

A very peacful and orderly elections where 980 people voted.

Sangli: Branch Elections

Sangli Branch of ICAI conducted Special General Meeting in December, 2009.

Following members were unanimously elected to the Managing Committee for 2010-2013

1) Uday S. Shah

2) Rajendra B. Kothari

3) Ajit D. Hajare

4) Vijay J. Thakkar

5) S. T. Shah

6) Ashok T. Bagde

Kolhapur: Branch Elections

Kolhapur Branch of ICAI conducted Special General Meeting on Tuesday, 5^th January, 2010. In the meeting poll was conducted & 231 members casted their vote.

Following members were elected to the Managing Committee for 2010-2013

1) Sanjay Sane

2) Girish Mule

3) Satish Dakre

4) Anil Jadhao

5) Sunil Nagaonkar

6) Shrirang Kulkarni

Goa: Branch Elections

Goa Branch of ICAI conducted Special General Meeting on Saturday, 12^th December, 2009.

Following members were elected to the Managing Committee for 2010-2013

1) Ashish V. Prabhu Verlekar

2) Ramchandra P. Hegde

3) Virendra Prabhudesai

4) Anup Sinai Borkar

5) Naveen G. Daivajna

6) Kiran K. Kharangate

Nashik: Branch Elections

Nashik Branch of ICAI conducted Special General Meeting on Wednesday, 30^th December, 2009. In the meeting poll was conducted & 358 members casted their vote. The counting was conducted in the evening & results were declared on the same day.

Following members were elected to the Managing Committee for 2010-2013

1) Bardiya Praful Dharamchand

2) Birari Kishor Murlidhar

3) Borse Ulhas Shivnath - Repeater

4) Kulkarni Vikrant Murlidhar

5) Mutha Sanjeev Shankarlal

6) Navsarikar Ujwal Suresh

7) Surana Brijesh Ramanlal

8) Sarode Mrutyunjay Yadav - Repeater

Nagpur branch had peaceful polls

• Unlike other branches, Nagpur Branch of WIRC of ICAI, holds very healthy elections. There is no panel system at Branch Level & the elections are held, though unbiased yet competitive.
• This time there were 12 contestants for the 8 seats of the committee, out of which 5 were repeaters & 7 were new face, contesting elections.
• Elections held at Special General Meeting held on January 2nd, 2010.
• All the 5 repeaters got elected.
• 3 out of 8 are the lady members in the committee
• Results are as follows
• Total Valid Votes Casted - 762
• Kavita Loya got the highest No. of votes, congratulations Kavita!!
• Congratulations to all members of new team!!

Sl. No.	Name			No. of Votes
1	CA. Kavita Loya	F	Repeater	618
2	CA. Abhijeet Kelkar	M	Repeater	550
3	CA. Shardha Suresh	F	Repeater	526
4	CA. Satish Sarda	M	Repeater	512
5	CA. Swapnil Agrawal	M	Repeater	500
6	CA. Ravindra Temurnikar	M	New	450
7	CA. Ashwini Agrawal	M	New	396
8	CA. Kirti Agrawal	F	New	393

Pimpri Chinchwad goes Prefential Voting in Branch Elections

• Preferential voting is never heard of in Branch elections. But this time Pimpri Chinchwad branch elections were held by preferential voting. Who knows about preferential voting systems, are very well aware that this is a better system of electing the best preferred people who represent the best preferences of the voters.
• But at the same time, this is the most complex system when it comes to counting. It takes a lot of time in counting because it involves lots of calculations and processes of transfer of votes and eliminations. Implementing this system in branch requires lots of expertise and expereince on the part of Returning officer. It requires lots of education on the part of people voting to make sure that they understand how to vote.
• Pimpri Chinchwad went preferential voting this time. Returning officer K B Singhi took this challenge and successfully implemented. But I understand it could be implemented only because the no. of voters casted votes were only 146. So counting 146 in preferential manner, is much easier and quicker. They completed this task in 3 hours.
• But the worst part was of the voter education. Out of total 146 votes casted, 44 votes were invalid. Mostly because people gave more preferences then 6, the maximum no. of seats for managing committee. If 30% of your votes gets invalid then the whole purpose of the preferential voting is defeated.
• Their were close margins between win and loose. People lost even by 0.45 votes.
• Out of total 12 contestants, six could be won, and those were as follows:
• CA Vinod Inamdar
• CA Baban S Dangale
• CA Manojkumar B Agarwal
• CA Suniiel Karbhari
• CA Chandrakumar Chhabra
• CA Suhas D Gardi

Ahmedabad: No big Four had interest in ICAI Branches

• One of my friend called me from Pune and asked did  this time big four had a panel in branch election and big four contested? I was wondering why he is asking such question. Then I was traveling from Mumbai to Ahemdabad and one of CA belonging to Ahmedabad working in Mumbai in MNC recognised me and walked to me and introduced and asked the same question. Then I started thinking why people are thinking like this?
• This is the background I thought let me write on this on my blog. If anybody knows about ICAI, is well aware the power is centered in New Delhi and all policy decisions are taken at Central Council. Regional Council are mere extension of branch, or say Regional council are only branches for big metros. Nothing else. Looking at this, as far my understanding goes, big fours are never attracted to even regional councils, forget about branches. The real power center is at New Delhi and big four always want their presence felt at Central Council.
• There have been very few examples of having a big four candidates in regional council. In WIRC I have seen only N C Hegde in last many years who belonged to Big Four. And never at branches.
• What happened at Ahmedabad? In Ahmedabad branch elections, only one candidate Sanjay R Shah out of 17 candidates contesting belonged to Big Four. And I don't think in this any activity by Big Four to control the branch. I look at it like this, Sanjay R Shah had been elected  member of managing committee of Ahmedabad Branch in 2001-2004 too, when he was not part of any Big Four. So merely because he is now part of Big Four can't be looked at as an attempt of Big Four to conquer ICAI branches. I really wonder how the scenario was painted by presence of only one Big Four candidate that Big Four is contesting under a panel?
• What do you think?

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

Results of Elections to Managing Committee of Ahmedabad Branch

Elections to the Managing Committee for Ahmedabad Branch was held on 9th January and Counting took place on 10th Jaunary. Total 2034 votes were cated in a single day for the branch election and it was highest no. of votes.

 

Following are the winning candidates and their votes

 

 

Sr No.	Name of Candidate	No. of Votes
1	NAGRI NIREN MORLIDHAR - 10	1145
2	DOCTOR DEVANG ANILKUMAR - 1	1045
3	SHAH SANJAY RASIKLAL - 14	1039
4	VAKIL JAINIK NAUTAMBHAI - 17	1035
5	TALATI ANIKET SUNIL - 16	1022
6	KHANDELWAL PURUSHOTTAM LAL - 7	992
7	KEDIA SUBODHKUMAR BAJRANGLAL - 6	935
8	SHAH TUSHAR JAYANTILAL - 15	922

 

 

Following are the details of votes of members who contested and lost

 

Sr No.	Name of Candidate	No. of Votes
9	LANGALIA VISHALKUMAR DINESHCHANDRA - 9	875
10	SHAH HIREN DINESHBHAI - 13	864
11	SHAH CHIRAG MAHENDRABHAI - 12	857
12	KHANDHAR AMISH JASHVANTLAL - 8	840
13	PAMNANI CHANDRAKANT HARNAMDAS - 11	822
14	GATTANI SHARAD RAMKRISHNA - 3	818
15	JOSHIPURA JAGDISH PADMAKANT - 5	763
16	DOSHI CHINTAN MUKUNDBHAI - 2	737
17	JHA SATYENDRAKUMAR KRISHANDEO - 4	310

Pune Branch Elections Called Off

Pune branch elections have been called of by WIRC. Following allegations and counter allegations, the elections have been called off by WIRC and a fresh procedure will be initiated.

Pune: Branch Elections has created lots of controversy, matter goes to court!

• Branch elections has become more controversial than the RC and CC elections. All the major branches in WIRC is having fierce fighting at branch level. It's really disheartening that in the elections of a professional body, such controversy are created.
• It is always welcome if someone make effort to bring the people to consensus and a team of managing committee is elected unanimously which is representing the people at large. But these exercises sometimes lead to bigger divide than cementing the relations. People have alleged pressure, and forced withdrawals in the process.
• For newly elected Central Council Member from Pune, its as said in Sanskrit, "Pratham Grase Makshika Bhakshanam."
• As per my information Pune election has now reached to court. It is expected that the branch elections are likely to be postponed and the election process will be re-initiated.
• The initial notice sent by branch for the Special General Meeting for Pune branch elections mentioned that the SGM is convened at 6 pm on January 7th to elect the new managing committee for Pune branch. The election notification however states that the timing of elections is 8 am to 6 pm on January 7th. As a matter of procedure, the election can not be conducted before the SGM, because the elections are the agenda on the SGM. Later on branch came out with an Errata to change the time to 8 am which created another technical problem of having a minimum gap of 10 days in date of election and list of final candidates.
• Rejections of the nominations of the candidates too have created many controversies. Candidates has challenged the rejections on the basis of mismatching addresses or writing names with surname first or first name first.
• In the whole process the returning officer too has target of candidates ire. Candidates blaming the Returning officer that he has not complied with the procedural requirement with respect to the dates and sequence of events.
• Its really a sorry state of affairs that we the members of such an esteemed professional body can't conduct our branch elections peacefully and matter goes to court of law.
• I have a suggestion, ICAI should conduct branch election too along with RC and CC elections. And if not for all, then at least for big branches having more than 2000 members, the elections should be conducted along with RC & CC. We can vote on three ballot papers instead of two. What do you think? Please comment..

Surat Branch gets it unanimous Managing Committee

List of members of managing Commitee of Surat Branch
Despite having many differences and bitter contests in recently concluded elections, Surat branch was able to get unanimous managing committee. Many members got invoved in the process and magaed it in the larger interest of profession. Members like Lokesh Khadaria too playes his role and withdrew his nomination, despite being a chairman aspirant. Kudos to all involved.

 

Here is new managing committe:

CA Bhootwala Herekrishna
CA Hitendra Modi
CA Tosniwal H
CA Rajeev Chanda
CA P C Choudhary
CA Pragnesh Jagaseth
CA Nishit Mehta
CA Dharmesh Tamkuwal