Amidst the excitement at the voting venue for the Jaipur Jewellers Association election, members of the Association elected 15 of the 30 nominees for the term 2014-2016. Candidates were divided in two groups, BARDIYA and KEDIA Group. Both the teams were on toes with aggressive marketing campaigns.

At the venue, both team nominees’ supporters had built up the tempo with their campaign, to see their candidate inside top 15. Altogether 2829 votes were cast and there was an active participation from the jewellers of Jaipur who were keen to ensure the right candidates are in the Association’s committee to decide the future of Jaipur jewellery industry.

The names and votes of each of the candidates are: Total votes cast: 2829

1. NIRMAL KUMAR BARDIA 1893

2. VIJAY KUMAR KEDIA 1695

3. RAM SHARAN GUPTA 1622

4. ALOK SONKHIA 1610

5. RAJESH DHAMANI 1449

6. ANIL BUMB 1437

7. D.P. KHANDELWAL 1437

8. KAMAL KOTHARI 1429

9. SANJAY KALA 1389

10. VIJAY KISHAN JAJOO 1366

11.DILEEP KUMAR GODIKA 1348

12. AVINASH KHANDELWAL 1338

13. ARUN GOKHROO 1301

14. MAHENDRA AGARWAL 1268

15. SUNIL SUKHLECHA 1263

16. PRAMOD KUMAR LODHA 1262

17. SUNIL BATWARA 1262

18. PROMOD DARDA 1235

19. RUPESH TAMBI 1219

20. GOVIND AGARWAL 1999

21. RAJENDRA SACHETI 1092

22. SURENDRA BILALA 1069

23. RAMESH MANIHAR 1054

24. PAVAN BAJAJ 1006

25. PRAKASH CHAND VIJAY 988

26. KRISHAN KUMAR AGARWAL 981

27. UMESH MAHESHWARI 927

28. SATISH AGARWAL 925

29. SHIRAZ AHMED 816

30. PRAVEEN KUMAR CHOUDHARY 631

The KEDIA group got 8 of its candidates in top 15, which means Vijay Kedia will be elected new President of Jewellers Association, Jaipur for the term 2014-16.

It was a narrow win by KEDIA group member Sunil Sukhlecha, as he managed to be included in the 15th position with just one vote more than the next candidates which were from BARDIYA group.

These 15 candidates will vote for 3 more members, which will make a committee of 18. The committee of 18 will vote for president and other prime positions in the association.