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Congress protest note ban outside RBI offices, demand governor quit
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SME Times News Bureau
Staging a vociferous countrywide protests against demonetisation on
Wednesday, the Congress demanded the resignation of Reserve Bank of
India (RBI) Governor Urjit Patel even as police baton-charged them in
Nagpur.
Leading a protest march to the RBI headquarters in
Mumbai, state and city Congress Presidents Ashok Chavan and Sanjay
Nirupam, respectively, accused Patel of being "a puppet, dancing to the
tunes of the Bharatiya Janata Party government" by changing policies 69
times since November 8 when Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes were
spiked.
They said the entire country had been held "at ransom",
the 125 crore population was suffering, the economy was in a crisis and
the independence of RBI itself was in peril, so Patel must immediately
quit his post.
In Nagpur, the protesters led by former Chief
Minister Prithviraj Chavan and Leader of Opposition Radhakrishna
Vikhe-Patil, former state party chief Manikrao Thakre and others raised
anti-government slogans against demonetisation and laid siege to the RBI
office.
When some protesting activists tried to barge into the
RBI building by knocking down barricades, police tried to stop them but
failed and undertook a baton-charge.
A few Congress activists sustained minor injuries.
The angry demonstrators then vent their ire on police.
Several
Congress leaders, including Chavan, Vikhe-Patil and Vilas Muttemwar,
demanded the suspension of policemen who caned the protesters and
refused to end their agitation till action was taken.
Chavan said
the RBI had been reduced to "a branch of the RSS" and demonetisation
had badly affected the Indian economy, resulted in job losses, pushed
down production as well as hit the rural masses and farmers badly.
Earlier
on Wednesday, the Shiv Sena - BJP's ally in the centre and Maharashtra,
in its most virulent attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, called
demonetisation "an atom bomb which had made Hiroshima and Nagasaki of
the Indian economy".
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