launching a broadside against the Centre in connection with its decision to stop the functioning of the cooperative banks, Chief Minister Harish Rawat said on Friday that it reveals the anti-farmer mindset of the NDA Government. “It seems that the Centre has turned insensitive towards the plight of the common men. This is why they have not desisted from taking the drastic step against the cooperative banks operating in the districts which deal with the farmers directly,” he wrote on facebook wall.
Notably, the Uttarakhand High Court while taking note of a PIl lodged with it praying for the court’s intervention on the matter asked the Centre to submit its reply by November 29. The CM who has so far treaded a cautious path regarding the Centre’s momentous drive has gone all-out after the High Court’s ruling was known. https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif
In his stinging riposte, he said that the Centre in its insensitivity appeared to have forgotten the fact that the cooperative banks are the backbone of the rural economy of many states like Uttarakhand. This is nothing short of backstabbing to make the rural economy crumble, he said on his facebook wall.
The CM’s comment seems to have been well-taken by the people with as many as three hundred people having liked it in a couple of hours since it came up at 3.40 pm.