Shiv Sena lauds union's cooperation ministry and Shah as head

Mumbai: BJP's erstwhile ally and now the ruling party in Maharashtra, in concert with NCP, Shiv Sena has remarked that Union Home Minister Amit Shah will do a 'good job' as he handles the cooperation ministry, PTI reports.

On Monday, the organisation welcomed the union government's decision to create the Cooperation ministry. It lauded its move to give the additional charge to Shah as he was a part of the cooperative movement in Gujarat.

However, on Sunday, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, who built the Sena-headed Maha Vikas Aghadi government in Maharashtra, said that the union government could not interfere in the state's cooperative sector.

The editorial of Shiv Sena mouthpiece "Saamana" opined that there is no need to be disturbed as Amit Shah developed and expanded the cooperative sector. Attempts to create fear that Shah will dig out old cases of leaders of Congress and NCP to launch inquiries are going on together with rumours that he will form a government in Maharashtra through "cooperation". The editorial read that fabricating such tales is like defaming Shah.

The editorial read that there is not much difference between politics and the cooperative sector regarding qualities like good and bad, true and false, moral and immoral, and everything happens as per convenience.

Recently, the union government created the new Ministry for Cooperation, which earlier was a small department under n the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. Amit Shah had said on Saturday that the government was determined to empower cooperatives and all cooperative institutions.