HC admits GCMMF chairman's plea against no-confidence motion

The Gujarat High Court admitted Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) chairman's petition here today, challenging the meeting called by its board of directors to discuss a no-confidence motion against him.
Admitting the Vipul Chaudhary's plea, Justice A J Desai extended the stay on the meeting called to discuss the no-confidence motion against him till the matter is settled.
The court posted the matter for further hearing on December 23.
On October 25, the high court had stayed the GCMMF's board meeting scheduled for October 26 to discuss the motion moved against Chaudhary, who took over as chairman in August 2012.

As many as 14 out of 17 directors of milk producers' unions had sought Chaudhary's ouster alleging "mismanagement".
The no-confidence motion was expected to be taken up at the GCMMF board meeting, which was stayed by the high court on grounds of absence of provision for moving such a motion, under the Gujarat Co-operative Societies Act.

However, the court allowed a routine meeting scheduled for November 6 to be held, on which Chaudhary had sought a stay.
The court observed that the apprehension that he would be dismissed as chairman during the routine meeting was unfounded.
Established in 1973, GCMMF is India's largest food product marketing organisation which clocked an annual turnover of USD 2.54 billion in 2012-13.

Its daily milk procurement is approximately 13 million litres, from 16,914 village milk co-operative societies, 17 member unions covering 24 districts, and 3.18 million milk producer members.