Joshi vows to clean up cooperative sector

PUNE, May 8: In an assailing temper against the Congress, Maharashtra Chief Minister Manohar Joshi yesterday proclaimed that his government was bent on obliterating the criminality in the cooperative movement, and earning the trust of the people by providing them the minimum facilities they have been asking for.

The State is going through a distinct transition phase in which the people themselves have resolved to finish off the remaining Congress, he declared, at a farmers gathering at Varvand in Daund tehsil. Scores of Congress workers including sarpanchs of several villages joined the Shiv Sena in presence of Joshi.

The cooperative sugar factories, he said, owe a whooping Rs 1300 crores to the state government. If his government decides to recover the amount forcefully, the amount can be used for completion of the water schemes. He however added that his government was not on a random spree to dissolve the coop committees.