SP, BSP upset due to currency ban: Shah

Seeks people's support on Mulayam's turf

Assuring people that the Centre will take steps to ensure that the poor and farmers do not suffer due to demonetisation policy, the BJP national president Amit Shah on Thursday said that the move had perturbed the Samajwadi Party and other opposition parties.

While addressing the party’s ‘Parivartan Yatra’ in Azamgarh, the Lok Sabha constituency of the Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, Shah said the common people and the BJP were happy with demonetisation.

“BJP is happy as it does not have any black money. The common people are also happy. The SP, Bahujan Samaj Party and others are perturbed,” the BJP leader said.

Shah explained the advantages of demonetisation. “The decision will completely cut funding to terrorists, Maoists, corrupt people and black marketers. The economy will witness an improvement in the coming days,” he said.

The national president said that Uttar Pradesh could develop only under the BJP government and appealed to the people to support his party in the forthcoming Assembly polls.

“It will also end the menace of fake currency being pumped in to our country by Pakistan,” he said. Shah also sought to assure the people that the government was contemplating a series of measures to ease their difficulties that have cropped up due to demonetisation.

“The government will soon be taking measures to give more facilities to the farmers,” he added. The BJP leader also accused the SP government of doing little for the development of the state.

“The SP government remained bogged in the family fight and ignored the plight of the people,” he added.

The BJP has been undertaking ‘Parivartan Yatras’ across the state. The rallies will culminate in Lucknow on December 25 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a public meeting.