After passing of more than a fortnight of demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 denomination notes, State Congress president Raj Babbar finally decided to come on road and protest against prime minister’s move.
Babbar along with thousands of Congressmen will ghearo the Kanpur office of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday to register protest. The Party will also stage ``Jan Akrosh Diwas Morcha’ (Public Anger Day Agitation), on all the 14 Nagar Nigam headquarters by staging a protest on coming Monday.
Confirming of the above move of Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee here on Thursday evening, spokesman of the Party, Satyadeo Tripathi said that Raj Babbar and several thousands of Congressmen will ghearo the RBI office in Kanpur to register their protest over the manner in which prime minister Narendra Modi imposed demonetisation largely affecting the common and poor people. Tripathi said that the poor and common man were feeling the pinch of Modi’s dictatorial order made in the name of combating black money along with counterfeit currency and terror funding.
Tripathi said that the protest in Nagar Nigam headquarter will be made on coming Monday, the day on which the entire Opposition had made a call of `Bharat Bandh’ to oppose Modi demonetisation move. He said that to make ``Jan Akrosh Diwas Morcha’ successful, Raj Babbar will himself lead the protest here in lucknow while Party’s chief ministerial candidate Sheila Dikshit in the coming elections will lead the workers in Kanpur.
Tripathi said that similarly in Allahabad, the protest will be led by coordination committee chief, Pramod Tewari, by campaign committee chief Sanjay Singh in Varanasi, former central minister Shree Prakash Jaiswal in Jhansi, former minister Salman Khursheed and Jitin Prasad in Bareilly, screening committee head Nirmal Khatri in Gorakhpur, former MPs Rasheed Alvi and Jafar Ali Naqvi in Moradabad, RPN Singh in Aligarh, Jitin Prasad and Rasheed Alvi in Meerut, MP Rajeev Shukla in Agra, Pradeep Jain Aditya in Ghaziabad, MP Pl Punia in Saharanpur and ClP leader Pradeep Mathur in Ferojabad. Tripathi said that one senior leader of UPCC was also given task to make the above rallies a successful.