Amul follows Modi, to set up Rs. 200 crore dairy plant in Varanasi.

Asia's biggest milk brand, Amul, has followed BJP's PM candidate Narendra Modi to Varanasi. Palanpur-based Banas Dairy, a member the union of the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation that markets Amul, will set up a dairy processing plant in the holy city. The plant will initially process five lakh litres per day with the capacity to double the production.

Banas Dairy, Asia's biggest milk union, will invest Rs. 200 crore to set up this plant, its chairman Parthi Bhatol told TOI recently. 'We've completed the process with UP State Industrial Development Corporation Ltd for land acquisition at Karkhianv industrial area near Varanasi airport,' Bhatol said.

Interestingly, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, whose Samajwadi Party professes diametric opposition to Modi, has offered Amul 30 acres land in Varanasi which, in all likelihood, will be represented by the Gujarat CM. In fact, Yadav has helped Amul increase its footprint in UP, which is India's largest milk producing state, by facilitating land in Kanpur and Lucknow as well, where Banas Dairy has started work to set up dairy plants.


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