Centre can’t meddle in State cooperative sector: Pawar
The Hindu
Maharashtra govt. frames rules, says the NCP president
In the wake of the formation of a separate Cooperation Ministry under Home Minister Amit Shah by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar on Sunday said the Central government could not meddle in the functioning of Maharashtra’s cooperative sector. “All the cooperative societies in the State are governed by the Maharashtra State Cooperative Act. The laws are passed in the State Legislative Assembly and Council. Under this Act, only the State, and not the Central government, has the right to frame policies and enforce them in the sector,” said Mr. Pawar. His much-anticipated remarks come in the wake of speculation that the motive behind the BJP-ruled Centre’s decision to form a new cooperatives’ Ministry was to break the NCP’s stranglehold over Maharashtra’s cooperative sector, thereby attenuating the party’s political hold.
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