LAHORE: United Business Group (UBG) is poised to sweep the apex body’s elections fourth time consecutively with majority votes as the opposition only fielded six candidates out of 13 which shows the popularity of the UBG among the business community unrivaled.
Chairing central core committee meeting here on Saturday to review the progress of the nationwide electioneering for Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry annual election for the year 2018, Central Chairman UBG Iftikhar Ali Malik said over 90 percent of the business community supports the UBG because of their unprecedented services and interest in timely help addressing the problems confronted by the business community across the country. He said, “With untiring efforts of Mian Muhammad Adress, provincial head of UBG, we will bag all votes in 20 chambers in Punjab as the opposition could field a single candidate against them from the most populated province of the country.”
Mian Adrees informed the meeting that all the 20 chambers throughout the province have assured to support the UBG candidates unconditionally. He said the opposition has miserably failed to win the support from the business community as it has no clear agenda and manifesto to resolve the issues of the traders. He said that UBG’s manifesto is to address traders’ issues and to put forward recommendations for economic reform to the government.
Abdul Rauf Alam, UBG Chairman FATA and Islamabad, informed that major chunk of chambers of his area will cast votes in favour of UBG candidates while Senator Ilyas Bilour, Chairman UBG KPK province, informed that 70 per cent chambers of his province announced to elect UBG candidates while Khalid Tawab, UBG Chief Sindh, disclosed that 80 per cent of total chambers from Sindh held assurance to elect UBG panel. Khalid, UBH leader from Quetta, told the meeting that almost all chambers from Balochistan will live upto the aspirations of UBG in the forthcoming annual elections of the federation.
