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The Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) has sacked N.K. Abdurahiman, the president of the party-run Karassery Service Cooperative Bank astatine Mukkom successful Kozhikode, for engaging successful “anti-party activities” by hatching a conspiracy with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] to instrumentality power of the bank.
A enactment dated December 2 from KPCC president Sunny Joseph said Mr. Abdurahiman was recovered to person committed “gross mistakes”.
The KPCC determination follows a connection from the Kozhikode District Congress Committee (DCC) to instrumentality beardown enactment against the cooperative assemblage veteran. DCC president K. Praveenkumar had alleged that helium had “cheated” the party.
The Karassery slope had been nether the power of a Congress-led manager committee for implicit 2 decades. It is headquartered successful Mukkom and has 5 branches and 2 sub-centres successful Kozhikode district.
Gross lapses
The slope was taken implicit by an administrative committee nether the Department of Cooperation of the Kerala authorities connected December 1 aft an audit study highlighted gross lapses successful the disbursement of loans. The incumbent administrative committee controlled by the Congress, which had its tenure till 2027, was disbanded arsenic well.
The Cooperation section besides claimed that determination had been complaints astir the bank’s functioning, which turned retired to beryllium existent aft authoritative inspections.
However, according to section Congress leaders, Mr. Abdurahiman had “created a concern conducive” for the CPI(M) to instrumentality implicit power of the bank. Of its 13 directors, 9 were readying to determination a no-confidence question against him, claiming that helium had been taking unilateral decisions without consulting the manager board. Between November 29 and November 30, implicit 800 caller ‘A’ people members oregon shareholders were added aft illegally utilizing the login ID and password of the unit of the Nellikkaparamba branch. Till November 29, the slope had 770 members. But wrong a day, the fig went up to 1,599 and activists of the United Democratic Front claimed that the recently added members were supporters of the CPI(M).
They besides alleged that attempts were being made to instrumentality implicit the bank’s control, akin to what happened with the Chevayur Service Cooperative Bank.
