Tempering with public wealth: Himachal Congress unit to stage Dharna outside LIC & SBI 

Stats Congress unit decided to protest outside the LIC and SBI Branches in the state on  the call of the All India Congress Committee, on Monday to seek investigation under the supervision of the Joint Parliamentary Committee or the Chief Justice of India against anti-people policies of the Central Government and the scams and tempering with the public money and accounts of hundreds of thousands of crores by the Adani Group. In a press release issued here today  Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee said that on February 6 it will hold protest in front of LIC and SBI Bank under the leadership of district presidents in all district headquarters.

 State Congress President MP Pratibha Singh has accused the Modi government at the Center of putting the hard earned money of the countrymen at risk to benefit hir friends.  She said that LIC has invested Rs 36,474.78 crore and Indian banks have invested about Rs 80,000 crore in Adani Group.  After the scam in Adani’s accounts came to the fore, the Congress is worried about the people of the country who have invested their hard earned money in these financial institutions.

 Pratibha Singh has said that due to rising unemployment, uncontrolled inflation and economic crisis in the country today  a gloom prevailing everywhere. She said that  People were expecting the union government to present a budget to overcome effects of the covid period snd it would prove effective in solving the problems being faced by people.” Neither there is any concrete solution to deal with unemployment in the budget nor any steps have been taken to deal with rising inflation.  ” she said adding that people of this hill state along with the country are disappointed with the budget.