Banker shunned retired life to fight for people

Vadodara | Thursday | 13th September, 2018

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Vadodara: Having retired from a senior position in the Bank of Baroda, Praful Desai could have preferred to spend a relaxed retired life. He floated the Gujarat Senior Citizens’ Federation and was its secretary. But that was not the case as he started taking up the issues of senior citizens and, later, fought for other issues too.Desai had taken voluntary retirement from the bank and later joined senior citizens groups in the city. He never cared if someone was standing by him or he was alone,” said Jagdish Patel from the People’s Training and Research Centre. He raised the issue in the high court and was even granted a personal meeting with Modi,” said Mistry..