Lashing the Centre for creating a new Ministry of Cooperation, Kerala senior Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala has urged secular parties in the country to come together and launch a joint fight against the "move by the BJP and Sangh Parivar to take control" of the key sector.

"This is an unconstitutional and communal move by the Modi-government to gain control of cooperative societies in states like Kerala, Karnataka and Maharashtra where the co-operative movement has a strong presence",  the Senior leader Chennithala said.  Chennithala’s statement comes a day after the Kerala government said that it would first try to understand the motive behind the Centre creating the Ministry of Cooperation before taking any action.

Requesting all the secular forces to come together and fight jointly against the move, Chennithala said a delegation of opposition parties should meet the President of India seeking his intervention in the matter. Chennithala, who is also the former Leader of Opposition in the Kerala Assembly, said the opposition should also seek a legal option into the matter as Cooperative Societies is a state subject in the 7th Schedule via entry 32 of the State List in the Constitution of India.

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