Agartala, Feb 06, 2023, TRIPURATIMES Desk

Agartala Feb 6: Tripura Pradesh Congress leaders and activists staged protest demonstration on Monday as a part of All India Congress Committee’s nationwide protest demanding an ‘impartial probe in the Hidenburg Research report and forceful investments of LIC, SBI and other nationalized banks.

While similar protest are held in Parliament by the opposition, Congress leaders and activists raised slogans against prime minister Narendra Modi and his government in front of Paradise Chowmani SBI Bank and LIC Office.

Lashing out the Prime Minister Narendra Modi led government, Congress leaders said, “The poor and middle class sections of the society have been pushed towards darkness as the anti-people policies of Modi government is directly benefitting his close friends and selected billionaires like Adani, Ambani at the cost of common peoples’ hard-earned savings”.

An official release by TPCC president Brijit Sinha mentioned, “The extremely risky transactions and investments of government institutions like LIC and SBI in the Adani group by the Modi government has adversely affected the investors of India-29 crore policy holders of LIC and 45 crore account holders of SBI. We know that PSUs like LIC and SBI are our Nation’s pride and built with hard earned money of crores of Indians”.

“With an intention to help his best friend the Modi government has forcefully made LIC, SBI and other public sector banks invest in the Adani Group. LIC has made huge investments in the Adani Group and investors of LIC have lost Rs 33,060 crores. The State Bank of India (SBI) and other Indian banks have given huge amounts of loans to the Adani Group”, it added.

The protesters claimed that the Congress Party is not against any particular Indian Corporate but are protesting against crony capitalism.

It further demanded ‘impartial investigation’ under Chief Justice of Supreme Court or a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) Probe in the Hidenburg Research Report along with discussion in the Parliament and action on forceful investments of LIC, SBI and other nationalized banks.