Amid assaults from the Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday claimed that “Amul isn’t getting into Karnataka” and asserted that it has performed a ways greater than the competition celebration to reinforce the Karnataka Milk Federation and its merchandise bought below the emblem call Nandini.
“Amul is NOT getting into Karnataka. Both Amul and KMF promote their merchandise throughout quick-trade platforms. KMF`s turnover went up through (Rs) 10,000 crore after BJP got here to energy in 2019. In 2022, turnover stood at (Rs) 25,000 crore, of which (Rs) 20,000 crore went returned to farmers of Karnataka,” BJP IT mobileular head Amit Malviya tweeted.
Senior Congress chief Siddaramaiah had requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who become touring Karnataka on Sunday, whether or not the reason of his go to become “to loot the state”, following Amul’s assertion of its plans to promote milk and curd withinside the Bengaluru market.
Malviya stated, “There is a motive why India does not TRUST Congress. They LIE! Latest being the incorrect information marketing campaign that Karnataka Milk Federation, which owns Nandini, goes to merge with Amul… The BJP has performed a ways greater to reinforce KMF and make Nandini a worldwide emblem.”
KMF is India’s second-biggest milk cooperative and has depots in Maharashtra, Goa, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu.
“15 in step with cent of KMF’s general income is outdoor Karnataka. Nandini is exported to Singapore, UAE and plenty of different countries. Amul and KMF are NOT merging,” Malviya stated in some other tweet.
He introduced that Amul, owned through Gujarat Milk Marketing Federation, isn’t getting into Karnataka and that each Amul and KMF promote their merchandise throughout quick-trade platforms.
“Under the BJP, Karnataka is a milk surplus state. Dairy farmers are doing very well. Congress, that is losing crocodile tears for emblem Nandini, hostile the anti-cow slaughter bill, accredited of our nandinis being slaughtered. BJP plans to make Nandini a larger emblem,” the BJP chief introduced.
The former leader minister of Karnataka took to Twitter to impeach the top minister’s involvement withinside the alleged effect at the state’s milk manufacturing following Union cooperative minister Amit Shah’s remarks approximately a likely merger among the KMF and Amul. The pass through Amul has been considered through many, specially competition parties, as a hazard to KMF’s famous dairy emblem ‘Nandini’ and an try to overpower KMF amid discussions round its merger with Amul, information enterprise PTI reported.