
President Droupadi Murmu has withheld her assent to the Kerala Cooperative Societies (Amendment) Bill, which sought to wrest control of the Kerala Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (Milma) through nominated members.
The cooperative societies bill was intended to give voting rights to nominated members.
The opposition had criticised the amendment, and the governor had taken a position that voting rights could not be granted to nominated members with no experience in the dairy sector.