05 July,2017 08:42 AM IST | Mumbai | A Correspondent
In an attempt to reach out to the government to protest unjust extra charges being levied on the common citizen by banks, Mumbai Congress unit chief Sanjay Nirupam and veteran journalist Sucheta Dalal, also the trustee of the Moneylife foundation
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In an attempt to reach out to the government to protest unjust extra charges being levied on the common citizen by banks, Mumbai Congress unit chief Sanjay Nirupam and veteran journalist Sucheta Dalal, also the trustee of the Moneylife foundation, took out a unique 'Twitter Morcha' on Tuesday.
While over 250 protesters gathered at the Ravindra Natya Mandir in Dadar, a protest had begun on Twitter as well, with the hashtags #BankSeBachao and #TweetMorcha, where they were tweeting to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Organizers of the protest said they reached around 2.5 crore people through Twitter alone.
Dalal said, "A bunch of consumers and organisations had met in February, and after several meetings over the charges levied by banks, they also gave a common memorandum to RBI for coming up with a solution to this. But there was no response. Even if the RBI has acknowledged the issue, there has been no result. Thus, we had to protest. Since this government is so active on social media, Nirupam came up with the idea to have a Twitter Morcha and our protest has reached to over one crore people." Nirupam said, "Several banks have introduced about 150 new rules in the last six to seven months, and according to those rules, all they have done is taken money from consumers, instead of offering better services. One of the main reasons behind this is the corporate sector being given a huge sum, which banks are failing to recover, leading to them looking to recover that money from the customers."
