Echoing NAFED Vice-Chairman Bijender Singh’s words Chandra Pal Singh Yadav, NCUI President and a member on the Nafed Board vehemently denied any move by the Union govt to remove Chairman and vice-chairman of the agri cooperative Nafed.
“How is it possible; there is no such provision in the law”, he shot back to this correspondent on Monday while inaugurating the TTT programme.
Indian Cooperative had earlier reported that the govt move to offer the cooperative bailout has a rider not acceptable to the current board: the govt would help only if the Chairman and Vice chairman resign from their posts. Mr V R Patel and Bijender Singh are the Chairman and vice-chairman respectively.
With 51 percent equity what the govt can do is to have 3 government nominees on the board and with another 4 functional directors, let the board decide whether it wants to keep the chairman or vice chairman, Yadav said.
It is a fact that the Nafed cannot be revived without the govt support and we are willing to cooperate with the govt. There are also moves to find a way out which as of now I cannot pinpoint but there is an optimistic mood, added Chandra Pal who is also a Rajya Sabha member.
On the issue of employees being unpaid for a number of months Yadav said “ it is true that there are a host of problems plaguing the Nafed and sooner it is solved the better. I repeat the Nafed could be destroyed in a day but it takes 100 of years to build an organization like the nafed. All of us should come together and I repeat “punish the guilty and save the nafed”, he underscored.