Thiruvananthapuram: LDF won an outstanding victory at Kerala Bank’s Board election with all of its candidates getting elected to the Board. With exception to Malappuram, voting was held at headquarters of all former district banks(currently the Kerala Bank’s credit processing centres) during the day. As Malappuram District Co-op Bank has not merged with Kerala Bank yet, there are no representatives from that district.
Elected members are: Adv S Shajahan(Thiruvananthapuram), Adv. G Lalu(Kollam), M Satyabalan(Alappuzha), KJ Philip(Kottayam), K. V. Saasi(Idukki), M. K> Kannur (Thrissur), A Prabhakaran(Palakkad), P Gagarin(Wayanad), Sabu Abraham(Kasaragod), K. G. Vasanthakumari(Kannur) and Gopi Kottumurikkal (Urban Bank representative).
Three of LDF candidates were elected without opposition. They are Ramesh Babu from Kozhikode(SC section), Nirmala Devi(Women’s Reservation), and Pushpa Das(Ernakulam).
Six additional persons apart from the elected members together constitute the Kerala Bank Board. Two professional will be nominated by the government as Board directors. Co-operative Secretary, Registrar of Co--operative Societies, Kerala Regional Chief General Manager and Kerala State Co-operative Bank CEO will also form part of the Board.
Except for Malappuram, representatives from primary agricultural credit societies ( one per district ) and one state-level representative from Urban Bank were the election candidates while voters comprised of representatives from 1557 primary agricultural credit societies and 51 urban co-op banks.
