Bid to destroy cooperative sector for corporates: CM

National Cooperative Week observance begins

The Union Government’s attempts to tinker with the federal structure, including the creation of a Ministry of Cooperation, are aimed at destroying the cooperative sector for the benefit of the corporates, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said.

Inaugurating the observation of the National Cooperative Week through an online conference on Sunday, he said that such unilateral moves which did not respect the diversity of the country would prove to be destructive. “Be it the amendment of farm laws, the formulation of labour codes or the formation of a Cooperation Ministry, such moves are clearly an infringement on the powers of the States. These are subjects that are part of the State list, which the framers of our Constitution did with a specific purpose. The cooperative sector has also been facing such attacks for the past few years. Illogical controls are being implemented to strangle this sector and its institutions,” he said.