Opposition gears up to storm Parliament over demonetisation inconveniences

NEW DELHI: With queues getting longer by the day at banks and ATMs, as the nation faces cash crunch following the government’s banning of Rs 500 and 1,000 notes, the Winter Session of Parliament that opens on Wednesday is expected to be stormy with opposition parties waiting to take on the government over the severe 'cashless' situation.

West Bengal

chief minister Mamata Banerjee has taken the lead in getting all the parties on board. Though her call to CPM on this issue was turned down on Sunday, most of the opposition parties seem to be getting together on the issue.

Banerjee’s call to President Pranab Mukherjee and the following decision to march up to Rashtrapati Bhawan along with other parties, including Congress, to brief him on the situation is a clear indicator that the Opposition hopes to escalate the issue against the government.

Opposition MPs are already preparing to reflect the stormy mood at the

Lok Sabha

Speaker Sumitra Mahajan’s meeting called for all parties on Monday, before the House opens.

Banerjee herself is slated to reach Delhi on Tuesday, and coordinate with Congress and other parties for the audience with the President.

TMC is the first party to have given adjournment notices in both the Houses of Parliament to bring up the issue of “inconvenience to the common people.”

In her latest tweet on Sunday, Banerjee has called the situation “the government surgical strike on common people” and has been demanding a rollback of the “draconian decision”.

While the demonitisation issue is likely to dominate the session, Opposition parties are also waiting to question the government on the surgical strikes on Pakistan among other issues.






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