You may fight BJP; you may fight NAFED but you cannot fight public opinion. That is the case with the Kejriwal govt which decided to buy NAFED onion and sell it at a rate of Rs 30 across the state through more than 200 points at long last.
A victorious NAFED Director Ashok Thakur thanked the state govt for acceding to the NAFED demand giving relief to crores of people. “The Delhi cabinet has okayed selling onion at Rs 30 a kg in its Wednesday meeting”, Thakur informed Indian Cooperative.
It is a victory of cooperatives in general and the Nafed in particular, Thakur added. As reported earlier in these columns Thakur has been active talking to the media and exposing the double standard of the Kejri govt. He was faithfully following his role as a BJP cooperator w defending the central govt at all costs.
Anticipating a weak crop the NAFED had bought close to 2.5 thousand metric tones of onion for Delhi and Delhi
Again in June they wrote a letter to the State govt informing their onion is lying with the NAFED which they can take to sell at the rate of Rs 25-30 to the people. But there was no response.
Earlier, Thakur accused the state government of trying to help some businessmen in the process. Those who funded the party are perhaps being allowed to get their cuts, added Thakur. ”Or how can you explain that the NAFED is ready to give them onion which they can sell at Rs25 a kg, yet they are not listening,” he asked.