Following caretaker Secretary Ritesh Kumar’s endeavour a team of Federation of Jharkhand Chamber of Commerce and Industries visited Lohardaga and found fresh elections as only solution to the Lohardaga traders’ body to be made functional as it has been dead for over six years.
FJCCI president Deepak Kumar Maru led the team that included Gumla Chamber President Sarju Prasad and Secretary Himanshu Keshri, who discussed over the redundancy of Lohardaga chamber from over six years. The discussion reached a conclusion that fresh elections will be conducted after the coming Lok Sabha elections are over. While waiting for the fresh elections the Lohardaga Chamber would launch a fresh membership drive to add new members.
Following the instructions a committee has been formed to look into the election and other affairs so far. This committee includes several senior Chamber members including regional vice president Pravin Jain, former Lohardaga president Chandrashekhar Agrawal, Lalmohan Prasad Keshri, VK Balanjinappa, Md Faiz and Ritesh Kumar.
The Lohardaga committee has been aimed to be reconstituted by June end this year. The members in the election committee will not be able to contest in fresh elections. Caretaker president of Lohardaga Chamber Abhay Agrawal, Deepak Poddar, Rajesh Kumar Mahto, Sanjay Burman, Uday Keshri, Deepak Sarraf, Vinod Kumar, Piyush Keshri, Lokesh Prasad, Sandeep Poddar, Uttam Kumar, Anand Goel, Haji Mallick Seraj, Shailesh Kumar, Dhananjay Prasad were present in the meeting.