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New Delhi, 16 Mar:<\/strong> The Congress on Tuesday asked the government to accept the demands of the nine unions of public sector banks (PSB) that are on a two-day strike to protest privatization of two PSBs, and accused the Centre of working for the benefit of a few “crony capitalists.”<\/p>\n Congress leader Rahul Gandhi alleged that selling public sector banks to “cronies” would compromise the country’s financial security.<\/p>\n He also accused the government of “privatizing profit” and “nationalizing loss.”<\/p>\n Public sector bank employees began their two-day strike on Monday.<\/p>\n Employees of general insurance companies will strike on 17 March, and Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) employees have given a strike call on 18 March, leader of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha and senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge said.<\/p>\n “Despite so many people going on strike and protesting the policy of privatization, the government is neither listening to them nor looking to solve their problems,” Kharge said.<\/p>\n “The government has taken a decision to privatize two public sector banks without consulting the 75 crore account holders,” Kharge told reporters outside Parliament.<\/p>\n “We demand that the government should come clean on the issue. The demands of the workers of the nationalized bank must be accepted,” he said.<\/p>\n The Congress had on Monday extended its full support to the two-day strike call given by bank employee unions and said the Narendra Modi government is squarely responsible for the inconvenience caused to people. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New Delhi, 16 Mar: The Congress on Tuesday asked the government to accept the demands of the nine unions of public sector banks (PSB) that are on a two-day strike to protest privatization of two PSBs, and accused the Centre of working for the benefit of a few “crony capitalists.” Congress leader Rahul Gandhi alleged […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-153316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}