“Nobody can silence me and you are misquoting people. It is the decorum that whatever transpired in the Board meeting is not meant for public consumption, least of all the media consumption. I would tell you nothing”, is how he reacted to a query from Indian Cooperative.
The intense bargaining in the forenoon of Monday saw heated exchange between Ashok Thakur, the government nominee and the Nafed old guard. The compromise was arrived at only after Thakur was promised to be made Vice-Chairman of the agri-cooperative.
BJP sources say Ashok Thakur is a proud Rajput who is the joint coordinator of the Central Cooperative Cell in BJP. “Do not get impatient you will have enough opportunities to break news”, he told this correspondent when asked to comment on today’s proceedings.
“I would not say I silenced everyone but it is not so that I was not heard”. He said the core team of the Nafed has agreed to appoint him as the vice-chairman soon. “Wait for sometime you would get the news”, he sounded confident.
Ashok Thakur said he was working on various agenda to streamline the cooperative movement in the country. If you display patience I would give you several breaking news in times to come but if you jump the gun you would lose all future sources of news-feed, he clarified to this correspondent.
His determination reflected the BJP’S resolve to over-haul the cooperative scene in the country. Is any of the old guard listening?