The BJP on Friday demanded that Primary Cooperative Society elections be held soon as per the Odisha Cooperative Act and the constitutional norms.
“Cooperative Societies are self-governed and democratic organisations. According to Section 243 (zk), elections to these societies need to be held before completion of the current term. Though the terms of all Primary Cooperative Societies are ending between January 20 and February 20, the State Government has not published notification and, instead, has appointed a Government officer as an in-charge officer,” alleged BJP Cooperative Cell co-convenor Pabitra Mohan Dash.
A team if the cell met the Registrar of Cooperative Societies and urged him to conduct elections to various posts of Primary Cooperative Societies as per law at the earliest. He threatened that the BJP would take to the streets if the demand is not met soon.
Bijay Routray, Anup Parida, Gourisham Pattnayak, Subas Pradhan, Pratibha Satpathy, Bandhu Charan Sahoo, Bipin Panda, Kalyan Chaterjee, Kelucharan Jagdeb, Gourishankar Patnaik and Ranjit Mohaptra were in the team.