Old guard dominates FGI managing committee polls

Vadodara: The old guard dominated the Federation of Gujarat Industries (FGI) managing committee polls for which the counting took place on Saturday. The results for all the 10 members of the managing committee were announced on Saturday afternoon. The voting was done on December 27.

In the general category of the managing committee, Enviro Infrastructure Co Ltd chairman Atul Patel, Transpex Silox Industry Pvt Ltd managing director (MD) Paresh Saraiya, Pioneer Elecmech Pvt Ptd executive director Nilesh Shukla, Kunkel Wagner (India) Pvt Ltd director Amit Goradia, Gautam Infin Ltd managing director Bharat Shah and Sabari Chemicals Pvt Ltd MD Mohan Nair, were elected.

Two women candidates who were successful in the polls include director of Zydex Industries Ltd Pooja Ranka and joint MD of P-Met High-tech Company Pvt Ltd Hemal Mehta. Dot Graphics Pvt Ltd director Avant Amin and Baroda Polyform Pvt Ltd director Rustom Patel were elected on the two seats for candidates below the age of 40 years.

In all, 19 candidates were in the fray and the contest had emerged as the one between the old guard that included Patel and Goradia who are former FGI presidents. The other group was once led by Amit Bhatnagar of Diamod Power Infrastructure, who is now in judicial custody in connection with a bank loan fraud and Amit Patel of Danke Industries.

Bhatnagar had to resign from FGI after he was made an accused in the fraud case while Amit Patel had to put in his papers after his company approached the NCLT.


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