Showing posts with label Bharat bandh Monday: Nation-wide protest against currency ban: 5 key points. Show all posts
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Monday 28 November 2016

Nation-wide protest against currency ban: key points

Opposition parties are holding organize nation-wide protests against the currency ban today. However, they haven't been able to see eye-to-eye on the means of protest, or the extent to which they disagree with the idea of demonetisation. Here are ten points to understand who stands where on today's protest and the events that led up to them.

1.Jan Aakrosh Diwas

Several Opposition parties, including the Congress, the Trinamool Congress, the Left parties, the Aam Aadmi Party, the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Samajwadi Party have said they will protest against demonetisation today. The Congress has called this day of protests 'Jan Aakrosh Diwas.'

2.Call for a bandh

Last week, Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) units in West Bengal, Kerala and Tripura called for a bandh to be organized today. Other parties were opposed to the idea of a bandh.

3.Mamata says no to bandh

Even Mamata Banerjee, West Bengal Chief Minister and the Trinamool Congress supremo , who's against demonetisation, said her party didn't support the bandh call, since it didn't emerge from the meeting of Opposition parties in New Delhi last week.

4.Prime Minister Modi, Amit Shah criticize the Opposition.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday criticized the Opposition for calling a 'Bharat Bandh'. A day earlier, BJP national president Amit Shah said opposition parties are merely opposing everything the PM is doing. "If Modi says today is Monday, they will say no, no, it's Tuesday," he said.

5.Congress clarifies

The Congress responded to the Prime Minister, clarifying that it hadn't called for a strike and had only planned to hold nation-wide protests.

Source:-timesofindia