Uttar Pradesh Congress leaders demonstrated at all districts against the Centre charging it with facilitating the escape of accused in Punjab National Bank fraud case. They raised slogans against the government and burnt the effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
As per a party communiqué, over 250 leaders and workers of Congress including Pramod Singh, Amarnath Agarwal, Sanjay Bajpayee, Siddharth Priya Srivastava, Gaurav Chaudhary etc took out a procession to ghearo Vidhan Sabha in protest against the Centre on Tuesday afternoon.
The Congress leaders alleged that several industrialists had cheated banks by defaulting in loan repayment and Modi-led Union government facilitated their safe exit out of the country instead of taking legal action.
As soon as Congress workers and leaders came out of the party headquarters in Mall Avenue, the police intercepted them and asked them to hand over their memorandum. However, the agitated leaders started raising slogans against the Centre and state governments and later burnt the effigy of the Prime Minister.
later the Congress agitators dispersed claiming that a bigger demonstration will be organised in the coming days till the banking fraud accused were not arrested.