BJP will ruin co-op sector: Uddhav

The BJP was planning to undermine Maharashtra’s cooperative sector, by taking over cooperatives and handing them over to industrialists, said Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray.

- Kalpesh Mhamunkar

Speaking at an event in Sangola, Solapur, Thackeray referred to Western Maharashtra as a “cooperative belt”, where sugar factories and cooperative banks have been a major part of the region's economy. He remarked that after Independence, cooperation was a state subject, but the central government, under Home Minister Amit Shah, had taken co