People have become victims of a visionless policy: Mamata
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday slammed the Centre's demonetisation move saying that it is a 'visionless policy' and crores of people have become victims of it. "Demonetisation is a major setback for commoners and a maximum setback for workers," Banerjee added. Banerjee has been leading protests against the move and has been slamming the implementation of the policy.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday termed demonetisation a "setback" for commoners and workers, saying the "visionless policy" has claimed crores of "victims"."Demonetisation is a major setback for commoners and a maximum setback for workers... Crores of people have become victims of a visionless policy. It's a major catastrophe," Banerjee wrote on her Facebook page.Mamata took to social media to express her "deep sorrow" over the common man's ordeal and claimed that the Narendra Modi led central government's demonetization decision had "drastically affected about 5 Crore workers in the country". "According to reports, around 1.25 Crore workers in the country in unorganized sector, e-commerce, leather, jute, textiles, glass, beedi, gems and jewellery sectors and daily wage earners under government schemes like MNREGA have either lost jobs or have been seriously affected due to cash crunch," she added on Facebook.