Congressional leaders Rahul Gandhi kept the focus on the central point Tuesday. Punishment Billed by public sector banks against customers that don’t maintain the necessary average monthly balance.
Rahul posted on burden on ordinary citizens.
“Inside Amritkar Narendra Modi as PM is also emptying ‘pockets’ of common people. The industrialists were relieved Rs 1,600 crore, but the poor Indians who could not even keep a minimum balance had to cough up Rs 8,500 crore for using the same,” said Rahul Gandhi.
“Modi Chakravyuh uses punitive measures; it’s a door he uses to hit hard on every Indian’s back. However the Indians are not Abhimanyu but Arjun because they know how to respond to every atrocity you break Chakravyuh,” he added.
Rahul’s criticism came after a written reply by Lok Sabha showed that public sector banks had collected about Rs. 8,500 Crore penal charges in five years from any customer failing to maintain an average monthly minimum balance during 2019-20. On Monday Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary also told Lok Sabha that state-run banks collected a penalty of Rs 2,331 crore from depositors in FY24 for non-maintenance of said monthly averages.
Rahul’s remarks came a day after he accused the National Democratic Alliance government in the Lok Sabha of trapping farmers, youth, soldiers, backward classes and MSMEs in the vicious “chakravyuh” of the Modi regime. He expressed disappointment over the finance minister’s failure to address farmers’ demand for legal safeguards for MSP and caste census.
On Monday Rahul employed “chakravyuh” metaphor describing Kurukshetra mythical plot used by Prime Minister, Home Minister, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and Gautam Adani and Mukesh ·Ambani’s “trap”.
The Union Budget was presented in Parliament by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on July 23 with big announcements for Bihar and Andhra Pradesh.
