Attacking the Central Government for the poor condition of economy of the Country, Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Committee (JPCC) on Thursday said that the demonetisation was an attack on the poor, farmers, laborers and small shopkeepers of India.
Releasing the second episode of the video on the social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp on economic crisis JPCC Chief and Food and Civic Supply Minister, Rameshwar Oraon said that the demonetisation was an attack on the unorganized sector of India, on 8 November 2016 at 8:00 pm, the Prime Minister decided to ban of currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1000.
"The people of the entire Country stood in front of banks. The people of the Country put their money, their income inside the bank. The first question was whether black money was erased or not, the second question was how the poor people of India benefited from demonetisation.
The answer is nothing, then who got the benefit, the biggest benefitted people are the 50 billionaires of India. The Government used your money to waive loans of the industrialists. But that was only one goal, the second goal was also hidden and that was to loot the land, which is our informal sector, it is the sector of the unorganized economy, it runs on cash," said Oraon. JPCC Chief followed the video series released by former Congress President Rahul Gandhi on the All India Congress Committee's social site.
Gandhi has given his opinion in front of the people of the Country under Speak on Economy on the constantly falling economy and unorganized economy in view of demonetisation, wrong GST and lockdown imposed by the Prime Minister.
Meanwhile,the State Rural Development Minister Alamgir Alam appealed that the striking MNREGA workers to return to work, the State Government is ready to consider their demands sympathetically. He also said that the Government is agreeing with most of their demands and it was discussed in the talks on Thursday with the representatives of the MNREGA workers union.
The Minister said that the main concern of MNREGA workers is that if any incident-accident happens to them, what will happen to their family. He informed that the Government is committed to provide all possible help to the victim's family under the social security scheme.
Regarding the second demand Alam said that the BDO-CO are often removed the workers, in this regard, it has now has been decided that BDO-CO will ask for clarification and if the answer is not satisfactory then they workers can be remove, if they are removed, they can also appeal to Divisional Commissioner.