The Union government was urged here on Monday to nationalise the banking sector completely to prevent industrialists from amassing huge wealth.
The nationalisation of private banks will also effectively curb the black money menace, said Karnataka Dalit Sangharsh Samiti (KDSS) members. Raising slogans and holding placards against the Union and State governments, members of the Samiti took out a protest march from Cauvery Park to the office of Deputy Commissioner to highlight a charter of demands. The governments were urged to initiate measures against the banks that refuse to help the farming community suffering crop loss owing to the prevailing drought.
The agitators stressed upon the need to nationalise the education, health, industry and insurance sectors to uplift the poor and downtrodden in society. They also wanted the State government to regularise unauthorised cultivation on bagair hukum lands.
The government should immediately implement the Justice A.J. Sadashiva Commission Report, on the internal reservation among Scheduled Castes. The reallocation of reservation, among communities grouped under Scheduled Castes, will improve the living conditions of the neglected communities apart from providing social justice to them, they opined.
