Taking its fight against currency ban forward, the Congress staged demonstration in the State capital and organised a protest march on the streets. The party workers also gheraod Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) regional office to lodge their protests.
Besides handful of leaders from the Ranchi Mahanagar, senior party functionaries, including former union minister Oscar Fernandes and Pradesh Congress Committee chief Sukhdeo Bhagat also raised the plight of common man following the November 8 decision of the BJP headed Government at the Centre.
“Even after so many days following the demonetisation decision, the Modi Government is yet to come up with figures available with it about benefits and the purpose achieved. Common people have seen and still passing through some of their worse days during the period in the name of black money and corruption free economy but the facts coming in suggest that none of targets acclaimed by the Government could be achieved,” said Fernandes, reiterating the apprehensions already expressed by the party at the beginning.
The party was also furious against the role played by the central bank in all this. “The Government used RBI as one of its departments. It is dilution of institutions and RBI allowed it to take place. The RBI governing body should have objected to the imposition of the diktat. In this way, the Prime Minister is killing each and every institution of the country,” said the Jharkhand Congress president.
The demonstration, at the same time, brought different factions of the State Congress on one platform for a while. leaders like Furkan Ansari, Pradeep Balmuchu and Rameshwar Oraon shared dais with their bête noire Sukhdeo Bhagat in the presence of central leaders that included AICC member Tara Chand Bhagora and party’s Rajya Sabha MP Chaya Verma besides, Fernandes.
Former Union Minister Subodh Kant Sahay and AICC spokesperson Ajoy Kumar, ex-MlAs KN Tripathi and Geeta Shree Oraon were also present during the protest.
The party in order to take the fight even further and to hit at policies of the BJP ruled Centre and State Governments would also organise dharna before the statue of Mahatma Gandhi at Morhabadi on January 30.