NEW DELHI:
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) held a nationwide protest against
demonetisation on Monday.
In Delhi, a 'jan samwad' was organised at Connaught Place's Central Park where senior party functionaries released a song on the impact of the
note ban
.
AAP's Delhi unit convener Dilip Pandey , who sang with others, accused the Centre of wreaking havoc on the lives of people. Showing pictures of some of the people who have died in the past few days, reportedly because of the impact of demonetisation, Pandey said: “Does this woman have black money? Her husband died of a heart attack waiting at an ATM line. This is a rickshawpuller. Does he have black money? Three days a woman went to various banks but could not get Rs 4,000. She committed suicide. The Pri me Minister had said that terror funding and corruption will stop because of demonetisation.
But nothing has changed. All promises have failed and now people are worried that exchanging notes over the counter in banks has also stopped,“ Pandey said. Tourism minister Kapil Mishra said that he had initially thought that the scheme held promise but within a couple of hours after the announcement, realised that the government was clueless about the scheme. “I first thought that the scheme may help in controlling black money but then I heard that new notes of Rs 2,000 are being introduced. Does the Centre believe that black money comes in high denomination currency? If yes, then why introduce currency of higher value? If they did not believe that then why did they do away with Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes? The government clearly didn't know what was happening. It has never happened that 86% currency has been made invalid in the space of a few hours. People have lost jobs and families are eating at langars because they have no money to buy food,“ he said.