Ahmedabad: Cooperative leader Juvansinh Chauhan, who is also a director of Kaira District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union — the country’s oldest dairy union best known as Amul Dairy — returned to the Congress party on Tuesday.
Chauhan, a two-term Amul director, worked with the Congress for nearly two decades before joining the BJP ahead of the Amul Dairy president election held in February this year.
Chauhan rejoined his former party with his supporters in the presence of Congress state president Shaktisinh Gohil at a function that was held at the party’s headquarters ‘Rajiv Gandhi Bhavan’.
Gohil said Chauhan was unhappy with the rising political interference in the dairy union by the BJP. “Gujarat takes pride in the Amul cooperative model. The then Congress government helped it grow and even helped in running it, making it a leading cooperative in the world. Because of increasing political interference, Chauhan decided to join us along with his team,” Gohil told reporters.
Amul has 13 elected representatives as directors, a majority of whom are currently with the ruling BJP which had in February wrested control of the union after Vipul Patel, a candidate backed by it, was elected its chairman.
Chauhan was among the four directors from Congress who had joined the BJP ahead of the election.
Chauhan, a two-term Amul director, worked with the Congress for nearly two decades before joining the BJP ahead of the Amul Dairy president election held in February this year.
Chauhan rejoined his former party with his supporters in the presence of Congress state president Shaktisinh Gohil at a function that was held at the party’s headquarters ‘Rajiv Gandhi Bhavan’.
Gohil said Chauhan was unhappy with the rising political interference in the dairy union by the BJP. “Gujarat takes pride in the Amul cooperative model. The then Congress government helped it grow and even helped in running it, making it a leading cooperative in the world. Because of increasing political interference, Chauhan decided to join us along with his team,” Gohil told reporters.
Amul has 13 elected representatives as directors, a majority of whom are currently with the ruling BJP which had in February wrested control of the union after Vipul Patel, a candidate backed by it, was elected its chairman.
Chauhan was among the four directors from Congress who had joined the BJP ahead of the election.
