The Maha Vikas Aghadi coalition government in Maharashtra made a clean sweep in the elections of beleaguered Osmanabad District Central Cooperative Bank.
The BJP candidates failed to win a single seat. MLA Rana Jagjit Sinha Patil led the BJP brigade. All the BJP candidates are said to have lost by huge margins.
The bank board consists of 15 elected directors and earlier 5 candidates got elected unopposed. The elections were held for 10 seats on Sunday and the results were announced on Monday.
The leaders of Shiv Sena, Congress, and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) won five-five seats each. The winning candidate from Shiv Sena include former MLA Dnyaneshwar Rao Saheb Patil, Vikram Sawant, Nana Saheb Patil, Sanjay Desai, and Balwant Tambare.
Whereas Congress-winning candidates include Bapu Rao Patil, Sunil Chavan, Mrs. Apeksha Ashte, Nagappa Patil, and Sanjeev Patil. Similarly, Madhukar Mote, Mrs. Pravina Kolate, Suresh Birajdar, Sanjay Kamble, and Mahoobub Pasha Patel are the winning candidates from NCP.
Soon after the results, the supporters of winning candidates lost no time in congratulating their respective leaders. Not only that, the high-profile leaders of MVA also took to social media to congratulate them for their victory.
The local MLA from NCP Dhiraj V Deshmukh wrote on social media, ” In the election of # Osmanabad District Central Co-operative Bank, #Mahavikas_Aghadi has won 15 out of 15 seats. Congratulations to all the winning candidates for this! Thanks to the voters for their strong support!”
Ex-MLA Rahul Maharudra Mote wrote on his Facebook wall, ” Osmanabad District Central Co-operative Bank wins 15 out of 15 seats. Heartiest congratulations to all the winning candidates and heartfelt thanks to all the voters”.
It bears recall that the bank is having an accumulated loss of Rs 101 crore. The bank has to recover the dues of Rs 465 crore from the two defunct cooperative sugar mills including Terna and Tuljabhavani and their unpaid dues have led to the financial weakness of the bank.
Now the new team which has been elected for five years has to work to tackle the bank’s financial crisis. The elections for Chairman and Vice-Chairman will be held within 10 days.
S U. Shirapurkar has been appointed as the Returning officer to oversee the election process of the bank.
