<p class="title">The Mumbai unit of the Congress on Wednesday asked Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to come up with a revival package for the scam-hit Punjab & Maharashtra Cooperative Bank.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The RBI has appointed an administrator on the bank after huge fraudulent transactions involving realty group HDIL came to light.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The bank's depositors are left high and dry as a limit has been imposed on withdrawals.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A Congress delegation led by state unit chief Balasaheb Thorat (who is also a state minister) and Mumbai Congress president Eknath Gaikwad met Thackeray.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Gaikwad told reporters later that the government should come up with a revival package for the bank and consider the option of merging it with another, financially sound bank.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We urged the chief minister to intervene to ease the hardship of the depositors," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Some 16 lakh depositors are struggling to get their money. Eighteen depositors have died so far," Gaikwad said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He requested Thackeray to hold a meeting with RBI governor to find a solution. </p>
<p class="title">The Mumbai unit of the Congress on Wednesday asked Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to come up with a revival package for the scam-hit Punjab & Maharashtra Cooperative Bank.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The RBI has appointed an administrator on the bank after huge fraudulent transactions involving realty group HDIL came to light.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The bank's depositors are left high and dry as a limit has been imposed on withdrawals.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A Congress delegation led by state unit chief Balasaheb Thorat (who is also a state minister) and Mumbai Congress president Eknath Gaikwad met Thackeray.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Gaikwad told reporters later that the government should come up with a revival package for the bank and consider the option of merging it with another, financially sound bank.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We urged the chief minister to intervene to ease the hardship of the depositors," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Some 16 lakh depositors are struggling to get their money. Eighteen depositors have died so far," Gaikwad said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He requested Thackeray to hold a meeting with RBI governor to find a solution. </p>