FNCCI gets new executive committee led by Vaidya

The Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI) has elected its new executive committee for the next three year term.
The new team led by president Suraj Vaidya has Pradeep Jung Pandey (Commodities), Bhawani Rana (Districts/Municipalities) and Pashupati Murarka (Associate) as vice presidents.
Vaidya received 59.14 per cent of total votes against his rival Ajad Shrestha. They have contested the election leading two separate panels.
Rana and Murarka are from Vaidya panel, while Pandey is from Shrestha panel.
The 102 candidates had filed candidacy for various posts in the 61-member executive committee and 13 of them had been elected unanimously. Altogether 561 voters from across the country cast their votes in the election yesterday. The counting contionued the whole night.
Altogether, Vaidya panel dominated the executive committee of the umbrella organisation of Nepali private sector that is going to nominate Bhaskar Raj Rajkarnikar as the senior vice president.
There are 92 district-municipality level chambers in 75 districts, 76 commodity-sectoral associations, some 439 leading public and private sector undertakings under associate members and 10 Bi-national chambers under the FNCCI that has elected the new executive committee during its 45th AGM in Kathmandu on Tuesday.




The new team
President
Suraj Vaidya -- 59.14 per cent (votes

Vice presidents
Bhawani Rana (Districts/municipalities chamber) – 123 votes
Pradeep Jung Pandey (Commodities) – 48 votes
Pashupati Murarka (Associate) – 226 votes

Members Districts/Municipalities
DB Basnet (Dolakha)—146 votes
Deepak Lamsal (Syangja) – 129 votes
Damodar Acharya (Nepalgunj) – 122 votes
Gunanidhi Tiwari (Nawalparasi) – 120 votes
Bishnu Bahadur Khatri (Sindhupalchok) – 115 votes
Pramod Shrestha (Myagdi) – 111 votes
Lok Bikram Thapa (Kanchanpur) – 110 votes
Meen Bahadur Shrestha (Sindhuli) – 106 votes
Om Prakash Bansal (Krishnanagar) – 100 votes
Krishna Prasad Sharma (Sidhdharthanagar) – 100 votes
Shankar Shrestha (Butawal) – 99 votes
Kalyan Krishna Tamrakar (Lalitpur) – 97 votes
Bijay Kumar Sarabagee (Birgunj) – 97 votes
Prakash Bahadur Saud (Dadeldhura) – 96 votes

Members (Zones)
Keshab Raj Pandey (Mechi)—Unopposed
Mahesh Kumar Jaju (Koshi)— 6 votes
Thirtha Kumar Shrestha (Sagarmatha) – 4 votes
Nirmal Kumar Chaudhari (Janakpur) – Unopposed
Krishna Prasad Tamrakar (Bagmati) – Unopposed
Madan Lal Joshi (Narayani) – Unopposed
Chop Nayaran Shrestha (Gandaki) – Unopposed
Bhushan Rajlawat (Lumbini) – Unopposed
Hom Narayan Shrestha (Dhawalagiri) – Unopposed
Dhrubaraj Shrestha (Rapti) – Unopposed
Kumud Kumar Dugad (Bheri ) – unopposed
Lanka Man Roka (Karnali) – unopposed
Gopal Hamal (Seti) – unopposed
Bhaskarraj Rajkarnikar (Mahakali) – unopposed

Members (Commodities)
Ashok Sharma –- 46 votes
Nirmal Raj Paudel – 44 votes
Sakunta Lal Hirachan – 43 votes
Birat Thapa – 42 votes
Sanjay Giri – 42 votes
Dinesh Shrestha – 40 votes
Rajan Sharma – 40 votes
Shankar Prasad Pandey – 37 votes
Kamala Shrestha – 36 votes
Nanda Kishor Shrestha – 36 votes
Biplab Man Singh – 36 votes
Uday Raj Pandey – 35 votes

Members (Associate)
Shekhar Golcha – 343 votes
Saurav Jyoti – 339 votes
Ashok Kumar Todi – 303 votes
Gyanendra Lal Pradhan – 293 votes
Ramchandra Sangai – 286 votes
Om Bahadur Rajbhandari – 276 votes
Jagadish Prasad Rathi – 268 votes
Dhruba Kumar Shrestha – 266 votes
BK Shrestha – 259 votes
Shahil Agrawal – 250 votes
Manish Kumar Agrawal – 246 votes
Bijay Singh Baidhya – 243 votes
Anup Bahadur Malla – 242 votes
Prakash Giri—234 votes
Jen Shrestha – 225 votes
Anjan Shrestha -- 219 votes

Member (Binational)
Chandra Prasad Dhakal – unopposed