New Delhi: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati today alleged that the Narendra Modi government has imposed an undeclared economic emergency in the country by scrapping Rs 500 and Rs 1000 currency. " People of the entire country are facing problem and poor are even experiencing starvation due to the decision of the NDA government ," said Ms Mayawati. Addressing a press conference here she said as the BJP has nothing to tell the people after their two and a half year rule, hence they have done it to divert the attention of the people.
"If really Mr Modi was serious in curbing black money and corruption, then it should have raided big industrial houses, who are his friends, to bring out the stocked money rather than taking a decision which has affected 125 crore people of the country," she said. Ms Mayawati even alleged ''during the past two and a half years BJP has made all financial arrangements for next 100 years by sending money in foreign countries and benefiting their friends the big industrial houses, hence now they have imposed economic emergency in the country.'' She also compared BJP with the Congress saying both are ''two sides of the same coin.'' She said that people will teach the BJP a lesson in the coming Assembly elections in the country.
Ms Mayawati, who would be meeting the party's senior leaders today to discuss the present political situation in the state, also released a booklet and CD of her speech given in Lucknow on October 9 last during the death anniversary of party's founder Kanshi Ram. She informed that these booklets and CDs would be distributed in all 403 Assembly segments in the state. (UNI)
Modi is trying to mortgage the country by demonetisation of currency: Mulayam
Demanding that the process for demonetisation of currency of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 should be relaxed for a week to end the economic anarchy in the country, Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav said. He charged that the effort of the Narendra Modi Government was to mortgage the country. "This was the first time after Congress's Emergency in 1975 that the country was facing an undeclared Emergency like a situation where we are not inside the jail," he said, adding that the act of the BJP Government was entirely against the people and the country.
"We fully support the government on their agenda of black money and corruption, but this does not mean that poor people should suffer. We demand that the government withdraw its order and give at least a week's time for the people to settle down," he said. The move is just to mortgage the country in the hands of foreign countries and to help the big industrial houses, who are friends of Mr Modi," he further added. Addressing a press conference here, Mr Yadav, in the presence of his younger brother and state party president Shivpal Yadav, alleged that the BJP was only eyeing on the UP Assembly election and is not at all concerned for the people.
"Today, a woman died of a heart attack after a bank refused her to change four Rs 500 notes," he disclosed. Mulayam also demanded that the government should also give a relaxation to the women to change up to Rs 5000 per month. Announcing that SP would lead an agitation in the country as well as in Parliament against the BJP's draconian decision, Mr Yadav said, "we will seek mandate from the people against the BJP and it will wipe out the saffron brigade from the country in next decision."(UNI)
