A day after Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav pleaded that demonetisation of high value currency notes be put off by a week, his son and Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav demanded that private hospitals, nursing homes and pharmacies be allowed to accept the old currency till November 30 so that ‘the common people can get treatment’. In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, the CM said that after demonetisation of currency the people were suffering as they were not getting medical treatment in private hospitals and nursing homes. He said that they were also facing problem in purchasing medicines from pharmacies. “I request you to allow private hospitals and nursing homes to accept old currency notes of `500 and `1000. The deadline should be extended up to November 30,” he wrote in the letter, which was released to the media on Friday. Akhilesh had objected to the demonetisation of currency saying that it would hit the poor and the aam aadmi hard. He demanded that the transition from old currency to the new ones should be smooth. The demonetisation issue also found mention at a function at Raj Bhawan where Governor Ram Naik’s book Charaivety- Charaivety was released. The compere announced that the book had been put on sale and because of the ‘currency’ crisis the book could be bought using debit and credit cards. The CM too took a jibe at the function and referring to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said that if people sitting on the dais agree then these books could be sold against old currency.