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Former minister of state for home Amit Shah allegedly involved in illegal snooping on a woman, on Wednesday skipped an event where he was a special invitee while Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi was the chief guest. The event was for opening of new building of Gujarat State Cooperative Bank where Shah is a director.
Meanwhile, Modi, without naming Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), took a dig at the co-operative giant over number of litigations filed amid ongoing boardroom drama at GCMMF, which owns and markets Amul brand. Following the snooping controversy this was the first event that Modi and his close aide Shah were likely to share stage. But, Shah did not turn up for the event. All the invitation cards and print advertisements had Amit Shah as as special invitee and Modi as chief guest.
Meanwhile, taking a dig at the recent court cases by various members of the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), better known as Amul, Modi quipped that by and large it was probably the co-operative sector that made the most number of rounds to the court offices. Modi's remark came at a time when GCMMF chairman Vipul Chaudhary was present on the stage.
"Two co-operative members can be seen fighting within themselves. So many litigations are on within the co-operative sector. It could be understood if one had to go to the court due to non-payment of dues. Instead, now litigations happen on issues like whether the meeting was held or not, was everybody present in the meeting or not, were the signatures true or not," Modi said.
However, sources said that Shah could not make it to the event since the national general secretary of BJP was occupied in preparations of Modi's upcoming rallies in Varanasi and Dehradun in the second half of December.
