A tough fight is expected in the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry annual elections being conducted on September 21 and 22.
A total of 2,631 registered voters of corporate sector will elect candidates against eight corporate class seats while 7,800 registered voters of associate class would cast votes to candidates against eight seats.
The last 13 years history of chamber reflected that all candidates of Founder, PIAF Alliance, had been sweeping all seats with majority and held key posts of president, senior vice president and vice president.
The LCCI, since its inception in 1923 and after creation of Pakistan, had produced prominent national political figures namely Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, former federal minister Tariq Hamid and Mian Misbah Ur Rehman, former chairman of SNGPL and Gymkhana Club.
The electioneering with holding of series of door-to-door corner meetings followed by lobbying and canvassing has come to end.
Chairman of the United Business Group, the largest alliance of chambers in the country, Iftikhar Ali Malik, said that dedicated candidates with integrity, especially educated youth, had been fielded in the chamber election with consensus in a democratic manner.
It may be mentioned here that UBG had already swept chamber elections in Punjab, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces with overwhelming majority and this group is enjoying more than 85 per majority in Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, an apex body of chambers in the country.