Congress is gearing up to stage a massive protest outside the Reserve Bank of India’s offices in Kanpur and Lucknow and at all district headquarters of the state on Monday to highlight the failure and ill-affect of demonetisation of high currency notes by the National Democratic Alliance government at the Centre.
According to UP Congress president Raj Babbar, who will lead the party workers and leaders on Monday to gherao the RBI office at Gomti Nagar in the state capital and stage a demonstration there, instructions have been issued to all senior leaders of the party in UP, including district and city Congress presidents, to remain in their respective districts and stage demonstration against the NDA government’s demonetisation decision taken two years back by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Babbar said the party would highlight the losses to the country due to demonetisation.
He said that besides Lucknow, the UP Congress would stage protest in front of RBI office in Kanpur and in front of district headquarters in the remaining districts of UP.