Kolhapur: Ravindra Apte was elected on Monday as the new chairman of the Kolhapur District Milk Producers Association (KDMPA), also popularly known as Gokul dairy.None of the directors of the organization opposed Apte’s nomination. Recently, Vishwas Patil had resigned from the post of the chairman of the association owing to demands from the directors of the cooperative dairy. Patil had exceeded his tenure that had been fixed by the directors of the KDMPA.Apte belongs to Mahadevrao Mahadik’s faction. At present, the largest cooperative dairy is led by Mahadik and Congress leader P N Patil. Along with Apte, Arun Dongale, Dhairyashil Desai and P D Dhundare were interested in becoming the chairman of the dairy.Mahadik and Patil met each other several times in the last few days to finalize his name. Accordingly, they sent a common letter of nomination to senior director Arun Narke, who opened it and announced the name. After the announcement, Apte filed his nomination, which was not opposed by any director.Apte is 73-year-old and hails from the Ajara taluka. He has been a director of the association for the last 36 years. He has already served as the chairman of the association twice between 2008 and 2010.After his election to the post, Apte said that he will work hard to help the milk producing farmers and provide them an adequate price for the milk supplied by them to the dairy.

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