Businessmen Panel has announced that formation of the elections committees will be followed by finalisation of its candidate for FPCCI president for 2006-08. A meeting of the group was informed on Wednesday that five leaders of Businessmen Panel were in the run for FPCCI presidentship.
These were Tanvir Shaikh from Multan, Misbahur Rehman from Lahore, Azhar Saeed Butt and Mahmood Ahmed also from Lahore and Qamar Zaman Gill from Gujrat.
The meeting was told that the final decision on the candidate for presidentship will be taken with consensus and all the chambers and associations will be taken into confidence in this regard.
"Businessmen Panel will win the next Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) elections as it enjoys support of majority of industrials and traders bodies," said Tariq Sayeed, FPCCI former president and Businessmen Panel chairman while presiding over a meeting of his group.
It was the first formal meeting of Businessmen Panel to kick-start its election campaign.
Tariq Sayeed said Businessmen Panel would repeat its history of clean sweep in next elections by wining 95 percent of seats both at chambers and association's elections.
He claimed that business community was with Businessmen Panel (BP) and its support is going to help it win with great margin in next FPCCI elections.
BP chairman said that Businessmen Panel would work hard to resolve the problems of traders and industrialists community.
Tariq Sayeed added that BP believes in politics of consensus with focus on the national economic development and strengthening of trade and industry.
He referred to his group resolution passed by the managing committee unanimously for repealing of Trade Organisations Ordinance 1961.
Saeed pointed out that in a convention held during Iftikhar Ali Malik's tenure as FPCCI chairman, President General Pervez Musharraf, had announced that Trade Organisations Ordinance 1961, would be repealed. He said now the chapter was reopened by constituting a committee headed by Justice Salim Akhtar(Retd). He claimed that the committee in its interim report had suggested abolishment of the ordinance. He said the business community on this issue has a consensus and demanded of the government to repeal it once and for all.