Demanding recovery of their money deposited with the fraudulent non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), duped investors from across the State staged a massive rally at the PMG Square here on Tuesday.
Thousands of investors from different districts came in a procession from the Master Canteen Square to the lower PMG and staged the rally in front of the State Assembly. This time, the investors particularly demanded that the State Government declare a dateline for refund of their money.
According to convener of duped investors’ body Jayant Das, the Centre and the State failed to protect the interests of the investors and let the chit fund firms loot them. The body further demanded that the State Government identify the duped investors at the block level to take actual data of individual investors regarding their investments. “During the identification process, the duping companies can be identified and their owners can be booked,” said Das. “If the State fails to fulfil our demands before the general elections, we will intensify our stir throughout the State,” said Das.
leaders of the duped investors’ body also demanded arrest of fraudsters of the 127 companies along with some Government officials who promoted them.
Political leaders including leader of the Opposition in the Assemly Bhupinder Singh, Jagatsinghpur MP Bibhuprasad Tarai, former MlA N Narayan Reddy, Ramakrushna Panda of the CPI, Rabi Behera of the Samajwadi Party, Soumya Ranjan Patnaik of the Ama Odisha, BJP leader Samir Mohanty and Sisir Hui of the CPI(M) took the lead of the rally.