Protests to be held 79 places in DK against merger of Vijaya Bank: Ramanath Rai
Mangaluru, Jan 10: Former minister B. Ramanath Rai said that protesting against the merger of Vijaya Bank with the Bank of Baroda and Dena Bank which were under loss, the Congress has organised protests in 79 places in the district.
Addressing a protest rally against the merger of the bank by the Congress here on Thursday, Rai said that people were expressing their anger against the central government.
The people of the coastal district had built the bank with their hard earned money. They had toiled for the development of the bank without taking their salaries. The bank started by AB Shetty was developed as a strong bank by Mulki Sundaram Shetty. It was not fair to merge such a bank with loss making banks. Instead of drawing the attention of Central government, the local Lok Sabha Member has been cheating the people. He was not doing what a Lok Sabha Member has to do, he said.
If the central government failed to drop the decision to merge the bank with loss making banks, black day would be observed in the district on April 1, he said.
Former MLA JR Lobo, Karnataka government parliamentary secretary Ivan D'SOUZA, Kallige Taranath Shetty, Vinay Raj, Praveen Chandra Alva, TK Sudhir and others were present.
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Deepavali inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list
New Delhi (PTI:) India's Deepavali -- the festival of light -- was on Wednesday inscribed on the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
The decision was taken during a key meeting of UNESCO being hosted at the Red Fort in Delhi.
This is the first time that India is hosting a session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH).
The 20th session of the panel is underway from December 8 to 13 at the Red Fort.
Chants of 'Vande Mataram' and 'Bharat Mata ki Jai' rent the air as UNESCO announced that the Deepavali festival has been added to the coveted list.
India currently has 15 elements inscribed on the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, and these include the Kumbh Mela, Durga Puja of Kolkata, Garba dance of Gujarat, yoga, the tradition of Vedic chanting and Ramlila - the traditional performance of the epic 'Ramayana'.
