Referring to the Multi-State Cooperative Societies (Amendment) Bill, being referred to a Joint Committee of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, Dileep Sanghani, President, National Cooperative Union of India (NCUI) and Chairman, IFFCO, said that NCUI will draw attention of the committee to some of the contentious provisions of the Bill so that not the democratic and autonomous character of cooperatives is not affected. He was optimistic that the Committee would give due consideration to the views of NCUI.