Police foil ‘Shankarava Deeksha’ planned by AgriGold victims

Many leaders who reached Vijayawada from various districts were arrested and shifted to the police stations

The NTR Commissionerate police foiled ‘Chalo Vijayawada’, a State-wide protest, planned by the AgriGold Customers and Agents Welfare Association in the city on Friday.

The AgriGold victims, who lost their amount in the AgriGold group, proposed to organise ’Shankarava Deeksha’ at Gymkhana Ground in Vijayawada, demanding that the government payback the deposits to all the victims in the State.

About 19 lakh people, who deposited huge amount in AgriGold, lost their money in the multi-crore scam.

The victims who launched protests, rallies, relay fasts and dharnas over the last few years to press their demands, planned to organise ’Shankarava Deeksha’ on Friday.

Police said that there was no permission for ‘Chalo Vijayawada’ and arrested the AgriGold victims, who reached Vijayawada, at the bus and railway stations.

They shifted the leaders and the protesters to various police stations.

With the AgriGold Customers and Agents Welfare Association shifting the venue of the protest to CPI office, police arranged barricades at the party office and arrested the leaders who reached the CPI office.

The victims alleged that the government was using police force on them instead of paying the deposits and was trying to suppress the agitation.

Tension mounted in the city as police deployed heavy forces at Pandit Nehru Bus Station (PNBS), Railway station and at the CPI office.