Udaipur’s Chartered Accountant Devendra Somani closely missed the Regional Council Elections of Chartered Accountants with only 35 votes.

None of the candidates from Udaipur has ever won these elections. In 2009 CA Rakesh Lodha while in 2012 CA Nirmal Soni tried their luck but could not make it. This year two candidates from Udaipur, viz. Nirmal Soni and Devendra Somani were fighting the regional elections.

31 candidates were fighting for 10 seats and out of 38000 voters 17000 took part in the voting. CA Somani was strong contender and till last he was on 10^th position. Somani was almost close to win when he was leading his close contender CA Charchil Jain from Indore with 44 votes but after disqualification of Jaipur’s CA Sachin Jain Somani could not maintain the lead and lost with only 35 votes.

The CA fraternities of city were preparing for this election from past three months but the last result disappointed the group and once again there is no representative from Udaipur in the CA Council.

ICAI is the highest body governing body of Chartered Accountants in India which is divided into five regions East West North South and Central India Regional Councils (CIRC). According to CIRC there are seven states viz. Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh and Uttarakhand. There are three stages in CA Associations – branches, regional council and central council.

There are 32 members in central council while 64 in regional which are selected through elections. This year there has to be 5 members in central council and 10 in regional council should get selected. Headquarter of CIRC is in Kanpur which has more than 38000 CAs. For central council there were 31 candidates and 21 contenders for central council’s 5 seats were fighting in election.