FNCCI gets new leadership with Vaidya as prez

KATHMANDU: 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 contested the election leading two separate panels.

Rana and Murarka are from the Vaidya panel, while Pandey is from Shrestha panel.

As many as 102 candidates had filed candidacy for various posts in the 61-member executive committee and 13 of them have been elected unanimously.

Altogether 561 representatives from across the country, cast their votes in the election yesterday. The counting continued 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.

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