Monday, 13 October 2025
Dileep Sanghani has been elected as the chairman of the Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative (IFFCO). The election was held on Wednesday, IFFCO said in a statement. Sanghani was elected due to the demise of incumbent Chairman Balvinder Singh Nakai earlier on October 11, 2021. Sanghani has been elected as the 17th chairman of the Cooperative.
Before this, Sanghani was serving as the IFFCO vice-chairman. Sanghani was elected as the vice-chairman of IFFCO in the year 2019.
Sanghani served as the minister of Agriculture, Co-operation Animal Husbandry, Fisheries, Cow-Breeding, Prison, Excise Law & Justice, Legislative & Parliamentary Affairs in the Cabinet with the Gujarat 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.
