The Kisan Morcha of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) in Patna on Wednesday demonstrated on the streets of Patna against the State Bank of India (SBI) for failing to implement policies beneficial to the farmers of Bihar and putting a moratorium on loans for farm tools.
The rally started at the party headquarters and ended at the SBI main office near Gandhi Maidan where the protestors burnt the effigy of the bank co-managing director demanding his resignation.
The Front's state president Satyendra Kushwaha said the SBI management has announced its decision to not offer loans to the farmers for buying tractors, power tillers or other farming equipment. "This is against the state agricultural policies and steps must be taken to force the management to withdraw its extremely damaging stand that concerns hundreds of thousands of farmers in Bihar," he said.
Meanwhile, in an yet another protest on Wednesday, this one sponsored by the BJP Youth Front, the agitators burnt the effigy of Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil at Dak Bungalow Crossing while accusing him of going soft on terrorists from Pakistan and Bangladesh and failing to check massive influx of illegal aliens from Bangladesh.
"India is a free country but that does not mean it is a free nation for terrorists crossing the border from neighboring countries," they said.
Source:http://www.patnadaily.com,22-05-08
