Payday leads to protest, clashes on Hyderabad streets

The first payday since the demonetisation led to protests, clashes and attacks on bank staff in Hyderabad. On Thursday, as there was no separate queue lines being maintained at many branches for pensioners and government employees, they lined up to withdraw parts of their salary / pension along with other citizens and were stuck in queues for hours.

Many parts of the city, including the IT Corridor and Telangana state Secretariat, witnessed cash-strapped people queuing up outside banks and ATMs to withdraw money. Despite standing in line for hours, many had not succeeded in withdrawing money as



many banks had run out of cash within the first hour.

The exasperated public put up roadblocks and protests at Saroornagar, Santhosh-nagar, Malakpet, Dilsukh-nagar, Saleemnagar near Moosarambagh and a few parts of Old City.

South Zone DCP V. Satyanarayana said that there was no complaint received from bankers on attacks. “At a few places angry bank customers held protests and we have convinced them to withdraw the protest,” he said.