MULTAN: Multan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) elected unopposed its new body here on Monday for the year 2021-22 and Khawaja Muhammad Hussain emerged as the new president.
The new body formally took over the charge in the MCCI annual general meeting held here today which was addressed by Khawaja Salahuddin, Mian Tanvir Ahmad sheikh, Muhammad Sarfraz and Sheikh Fazal Elahi. Member election commission of MCCI announced that all the office bearers were elected unopposed as no rival candidates had filed nominations for any seat of the MCCI.
He said that Khawaja Muhammad Hussain had filed nomination papers for president seat (Associate Class ) Khawaja Sohail Tufail senior vice president (Corporate Class), and Naveed Chughtai vice president (Corporate Class). They were declared successful against their respective seats as no one filed nominations to contest against them. All members of the executive body elected unopposed during election MCCI 2021-22.
MCCI president-elected Khawaja Muhammad Hussain thanked the members for electing him and pledged to keep all on board for consultations for promotion of business and industry and development of southern part of Punjab.
He said that south Punjab would witness accelerated business activities by virtue of projects to be undertaken under China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).He said that MCCI would continue to fulfil its social responsibilities with a new zeal and expressed readiness to work with other departments to ensure easier access of people to education and health facilities.
He said that MCCI delegations should conduct meetings with government high ups to get the problems of business and industry resolved and to convince them to launch development projects related to CPEC in South Punjab
