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Congress won’t allow a time to come when the BJP can raise the slogan of “One Nation, One Milk”, the opposition party said on Wednesday while accusing the Centre of seeking “enforced cooperation” between Amul and Karnataka Milk Federation brand Nandini.
Terming it a “brazen move” to control dairy cooperatives in states, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh, General Secretary in-charge Communications said the party will strongly oppose the BJP’s efforts to centralize control of cooperatives by replacing farmers’ control with theirs.
Amit Shah’s enforced “cooperation” b/w Nandini & Amul is a pretext to merge dairy co-ops into a multi-state cooperative under his command & control.@INCIndia will protect interests of dairy farmers against this Modi-Shah absurdity of ‘One Nation, One Milk’ only to benefit BJP. pic.twitter.com/e9lFOM71Kl
— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) April 12, 2023
With assembly elections just a month away in Karnataka, the Congress has trained its guns at the ruling BJP and expressed fears that Nandini, the Rs 21,000 crore brand, from the KMF could be merged with Anand Milk Union Limited (AMUL). The BJP has emphatically rejected the charge.
