When the Lok Sabha passed a Bill last Wednesday to set up the Tribhuvan Sahkari University in Gujarat’s Anand, there was jubilation in the hometown of Tribhuvandas Kishibhai Patel, considered the “father of the cooperative movement” in the country.
In Moto Chowpato, a residential area in the heart of Anand where the Congress leader lived with his family when he was at the helm of the cooperative movement in the 1940s, 76-year-old advocate and resident Bipin Patel recalls his interactions with “Kaka”, as Patel was fondly known.
“There is no doubt that Tribhuvandas Patel is the father of the cooperative movement in India. We welcome the decision of the government to name…