Yogi Adityanath govt to break SP's stranglehold over cash-rich cooperatives

There are more than 12,000 big and small cooperative societies in Uttar Pradesh

With the race for 2019 Lok Sabha poll hotting up, the Yogi Adityanath government is set to break the stranglehold of its bête noir Samajwadi Party (SP) over cash rich cooperative bodies in Uttar Pradesh.

SP, the principal opposition party in UP, has over the years dominated all the big cooperative societies, which provide the much needed financial backing to the party even when it is out of power. There are more than 12,000 big and small cooperative societies in the state.

Now, the Adityanath government has amended sections 29 and 31 of the UP Cooperative Societies Act 1965. The SP leaders