Summary:
Chennai, Dec 3 (PTI): Members of the All India Bank Employees" Association called (AIBEA) on Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Friday and sought his support for the two-day national strike call given by the unions.
The United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU) announced the strike from December 16 to protest against the Centre"s plan to private public sector banks.
The association has lined up series of other agitational programmes if the government does not give up the idea of privatisation.
AIBEA general secretary C H Venkatachalam, along with Communist Party of India (CPI) state secretary R Mutharasan, called on Stalin and sought his government"s support to the strike.
Stating that the public sector banks play a leading role in a country"s economic development, Venkatachalam said because private banks were not helping the Centre, major private banks were nationalised in 1969.
"After that, banks grew in a big way.