In a brazen case of going back on his words, Shivraj Singh govt in Madhya Pradesh is aiming to make political appointments in the co-operative banks in order to tackle the rise of dissidence in the party.
There is a news that Madhya Pradesh government led by Shivraj Singh Chouhan is planning to make the dissident legislators as administrators in district central cooperative banks by amending the state cooperative act.
Readers would recall that it was the BJP government led by Shivraj that had earlier disallowed MPs and MLAs from becoming the Chairmen and Vice-Chairmen of cooperatives and a bill to this effect had been passed by the state assembly.
According to the cooperative act amended in 2015, “Apart from parliament members and MLAs, those elected to district panchayats, village panchayats, local municipal bodies, marketing boards or marketing committees will also not be allowed to become presidents, vice-presidents or chairman, vice-chairman of the societies”.
It is speculated that the bill for amending the state cooperative act can be introduced in the coming assembly session and the BJP will once again accommodate its MLAs and MPs with important roles in these DCCBs.
Several MLAs want to become a minister especially those who have left congress and joined BJP. In this situation it is difficult for Shivraj to make everyone happy so they are planning to amend the cooperative act in order to accommodate dissident legislators in cooperatives.
One of the cooperators from MP said, “Legislators and MPs have to become primary members of the bank before becoming president in DCCBs. It is said that about 50 percent of the chairmen are still members of various district cooperative banks. Those whose membership has expired will have to renew their membership.
There are 38 DCCBs and after amending the act the Shivraj government will settle MPs and MLAs as administrators in these banks.
Earlier, as soon as BJP took over the charge in Madhya Pradesh it had suspended all the administrators appointed by the congress government in District Central Cooperative Banks of the state.