BJP’s Shankar Chaudhary re-elected as Banas dairy chairman
Gujarat Assembly Speaker Shankar Chaudhary has been re-elected unopposed for a third consecutive term as Chairman of Banas Dairy — the large dairy cooperative in Banaskantha district, widely cited as Asia’s largest milk-producer cooperative. The nomination process saw no contest, with official filings indicating only one candidate per seat across the constituencies involved in the…
BJP Wins 11 of 13 Amul Board Seats in Gujarat Co-op Upset
In a major political shift, the BJP has secured a decisive win in the Kaira District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union (Amul Dairy) board elections held on September 10, 2025, clinching 11 of the 13 available seats. Four of these victories were uncontested. The Congress retained just two seats—Borsad and Kapadvanj—amid allegations that the BJP leveraged…
Gujarat Dairy Scandal Surfaces Amid BJP Infighting
A politically charged conflict within Gujarat’s BJP has unveiled alarming revelations of illegal milk operations and entrenched corruption across several cooperative dairies. The latest scandal involves Sumul Dairy in Surat, where top executives are accused of sourcing milk illegally from Maharashtra through unregistered chilling plants, funneling it into the local supply chain. Alleged misconduct includes…
BJP seeks hike in incentive to dairy farmers, to stage protest in Udupi on June 26
The BJP Yuva Morcha will stage a protest in Udupi on Wednesday seeking a hike of ₹10 per litre in incentive to dairy farmers, according to Udupi unit president Kamalaksha Hebbar. Addressing presspersons in Udupi on Monday, he said that the protest will be in front of the office of Deputy Commissioner at 10.30 a.m….
Can Women from Dairy Industry Power BJP to Gujarat Throne?
The small Ajarpura cooperative office close to the Amul headquarters in Gujarat’s Anand bears testimony to change and women empowerment. For the first time in 75 years, a woman heads the dairy cooperative society. Gayatri Patel is one of those increasing tribe of women who have entered the dairy business and can be seen extracting milk from…
Free Nandini milk for BPL families on BJP’s manifesto
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) as a part of its Karnataka Elections 2023 manifesto. A high-level committee will be constituted for the purpose of implementing the UCC. Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai released the party manifesto for the Assembly Polls on Monday in a huge event. CM Bommai said…
Amul over Nandini? No whey
No creature—celestial or mortal—has been coveted, abducted or stolen as much and as many times as the sacred cow Nandini. She appears as the same as Kamadhenu in most stories, but as her daughter in a few. The list of her abductors is long—Vishwamitra, Satyavrata, the Ashtavasus, to name a few. Now Siddaramaiah has added…
BJP’s “Misrule” Led To Increase In Milk Prices: M Kharge
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday said from being one of the world’s largest milk-producing countries in the world, (white revolution) under the previous UPA regime, the country is now ‘forced’ to import milk products due to the misrule of the BJP-led central government. Taking to Twitter, Mr Kharge alleged that the BJP’s ‘misrule’ left…
Four of Congress’s Amul Dairy directors join BJP in Gujarat
In a setback to the Congress, four directors of Amul Dairy—formerly Kaira District Cooperative Milk Producers Union—belonging to the party joined the BJP in presence of state president C R Paatil in Gandhinagar on Saturday, bringing down the party tally to three. The four Amul directors are from Anand and Kheda districts— Gautam Chauhan (Mehmedabad), Sita Chandu…
In Gujarat’s dairy world, BJP gets the cream of the crop
Seventeen years ago, an anguished Dr Verghese Kurien, pre-empting his removal, had stepped down as founder-chairman of the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) — the umbrella body of dairy co-operatives based in Anand that owns the iconic Amul brand. Announcing his resignation on March 6, 2006, at the Indian Institute of Rural Management (IRMA), another institution he…