Continuing its tirade against Narendra Modi Government over its decision of demonetisation of high value currency notes the Congress will observe Jan Aakrosh Diwas on Monday and stage protest across Uttar Pradesh.
“The party will stage protest in all the district headquarters against demonetisation of high value currency notes. These protest will be led by senior Congress leaders all across Uttar Pradesh,” Party spokesman Virendra Madan said in a press statement issued here on Sunday.
In lucknow, the protest would be led by state party president Raj Babbar. Party’s Chief Ministerial candidate Sheila Dixit will lead protest in Kanpur while in Allahabad chairman of the Co-ordination committee Pramod Tiwari will lead party’s protest.
“Similarly all senior leaders will lead protest in others districts. Dr Sanjay Singh will lead protest in Varanasi, former Union Minister Sriparakash Jaiswal in Jhansi, former union minister Salman Kurshied in Bareilly, Dr Ammar Rizvi in Gorakhpur, Zaffar Ali Naqvi in Moradabad, Jitin Prasada in Meerut, former union minister RPN Singh in Aligarh, Rajiv Shukla in Agra, Pradeep Jain in Ghaziabad, Pl Punia in Saharanpur and Pradeep Mathur in Firozabad,” Madan said.
In lucknow the Congress leaders will stage protest near GPO at Hazratganj.
Madan said that por and farmers are badly hit by this decision. The daily wage earners are facing the brunt of this dictatorial decision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Congress will try to give voice to these people carry forward their `aakrosh’ to the people to matter so that they can rescind the decision of demonetisation, he said.