Kolhapur, Nov. 9 -- CJP activist Abhijeet Dipke on Monday accused Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis of attempting a "hostile takeover" of the Gokul Milk Cooperative after the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Mahayuti lost the cooperative's election, as thousands of people took part in a protest march in Kolhapur against the state government's move to appoint additional directors with voting rights.

In a post on X, Dipke alleged that the state government was using its power to overturn the people's mandate instead of accepting the election results.

"The Chief Minister calls others anarchists, but after losing an election to a milk cooperative himself, he tries to use his power to stage a 'hostile takeover' instead of accepting the p...