Thiruvananthapuram: Ruling CPI(M) led LDF in Kerala today began a 24-hour day-night state wide stir as part of its move to intensify the agitation on problems faced by the cooperative sector in the state after demonetisation.
LDF activists organised sit-in dharnas at various centres in panchayats,municipalities and Corporation levels in protest against what the Front termed was the Centre’s move to destroy cooperatives in the state under the cover of demonetisation.
Inaugurating the dharna here, LDF convener Vaikom Viswam said the agitation was to “protect” the cooperatives, on which the common man depends for daily needs, from the move of the Centre and BJP.
He alleged that demonetisation of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes had pushed farmers and ordinary people to untold sufferings.
On the crisis in the cooperative sector, Viswam claimed that all transactions in the sector had come to a standstill and that depositors were not able to withdraw money.
“People are running helter-skelter to get funds to meet expenses connected with weddings,” he said.
CPI(M) said yesterday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had declined to meet an all-party delegation from Kerala on the cooperative sector issue and had expressed strong resentment, with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan dubbing it as an “insult” to the state.
