Congratulating the victorious Congress candidates of Amul Dairy: Ahmed Patel

The Congress in Gujarat on Wednesday got a boost in a state where it has been struggling to clutch at straws for survival in the last two decades when its legislator from Thasra Assembly constituency, Ramsinh Parmar, was able to retain his hold over the Kaira District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union – popularly known as Amul Dairy.

It was Amul Dairy that led to the formation of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation in 1946, with two village dairy cooperative societies and 247 litres of milk.

Today GCMMF is the epitome of the milk cooperative movement, with 17 district milk cooperative unions and over 3 million milk producers from Gujarat as its members.

While the GCMMF manages brand Amul and hopes to achieve a turnover of Rs 20,000 crore, brand Amul is owned originally by the Kaira District Cooperative Milk Producers Union Ltd.
The election was on a relatively smaller scale, with less than 1,000 voters.

political secretary to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, said in a statement that the victory was a befitting reply by milk producers and milk unions to BJP administrators who tried to use administrative machinery and police threats against voters.
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