The Congress has planned that its leaders will visit areas and sectors that have suffered the most “pain”. On Tuesday, Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi visited the Dadri grain market in Western Uttar Pradesh. Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram addressed a press conference in Nagpur. In Vijayawada, Communist Party of India (Marxist) chief Sitaram Yechury said note banwas a huge scam.
The Congress units in Delhi and Mumbai have started holding public meetings dubbed as “note pe charcha” over the issue. The Trinamool also started a three-day block level campaign in Bengal to highlight the impact of note ban on the state’s leather, jute and tea industries. Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has taken to tweet against ‘note ban’ in Hindi. Trinamool Congress MP Derek O’Brien said Banerjee was the first to visit a wholesale vegetable market in Delhi to highlight the ‘note ban’ impact. “The real estate sector is badly hit. Ludhiana’s hosiery mills have suffered job losses. Informal sector workers have either not received wages or lost their jobs. Our party will highlight this,” he said.
The winter session of Parliament, which will resume after a four-day break on Wednesday, is unlikely to transact any business in the last three days of the session that concludes on Friday.
Opposition parties will have a meeting on Wednesday morning to decide their strategy in Parliament for the next three days but are unwilling to let the finance minister initiate the discussion in the Lok Sabha on ‘note ban’.
The BJP, meanwhile, has issued a whip to its MPs and asked them to be present in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha for the remainder of the winter session.
(Sourced from agencies, feature image courtesy:oneindia.com)
