Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday fired more salvos at the Narendra Modi Government for “discriminating among regions” in distribution of currency notes and demanded an RBI statement on the list of notes having been sent to the States.
Even as queues before the banks lengthened and employees across the board grappled for cash on salary day the Bengal Chief Minister said, “it is sad to see that despite having received their salaries in banks the employees cannot withdraw cash,” alleging the “this is clear case of discrimination and lack of planning.”
Demanding that “the RBI should come out with the list and amount of currency notes sent to various States” she said, “the Centre is discriminating among States giving preference to the BJP-run States and neglecting the others.”
She said the Thursday’s rush for money was a clear case of “lack of planning which has put millions of people in jeopardy” Banerjee said the Centre had made false promises of sending Rs500 and Rs1,00 notes “but has sent very of that to Bengal.”
Meanwhile, the State Government employees’ association backed by the Trinamool Congress on Thursday staged a dharna at the regional headquarters of RBI in Kolkata demanding early release of currency notes.
Hundreds of employees gathered at the gates of the RBI and raised slogans against the Centre and Prime Minister Modi and demanded early normalisation of the situation.