Dikhyaa Mohanty 
Dileep Sanghani has been elected as chairman of the Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative (IFFCO) which was held on January 19 as informed by IFFCO in a statement.
According to the reports, these elections were held due to the demise of incumbent Chairman Balvinder Singh Nakai earlier on October 11, 2021. The elected board of directors of IFFCO universally elected Dileep Sanghani as the 17th chairman of the Cooperative.
Dileep Bhai Sanghani is a senior co-operator from Gujarat and he is also the chairman of Gujarat State Cooperative Marketing Federation Ltd. (GUJCOMASOL), a post he has held since 2017. He is a former minister of Agriculture, Co-operation Animal Husbandry, Fisheries, Cow-Breeding, Prison, Excise Law & Justice, Legislative & Parliamentary Affairs in the Cabinet of the Gujrat government. In 2021, Sanghani was elected to the position of the President of the National Cooperative Union of India (NCUI), the apex body of the Cooperatives in India.
He was earlier serving as the IFFCO vice-chairman. Sanghani was elected as the vice-chairman of IFFCO in the year 2019. After getting elected, Sanghani said the IFFCO was committed to farmers and cooperatives and will continue to work for the farmers on the lines of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of ‘Sahkar se Samridhi’.
IFFCO Managing Director Awasthi stated that they continue to perform in sync with our Prime Minister’s vision of Atmanirbhar Krishi and Atmanirbhar Bharat to fulfil the dream of doubling farmers’ income.
