Nitish Kumar questions benefits of demonetisation
Saturday - May 26, 2018 8:12 pm ,
Category : INDIA
Nitish Kumar questions benefits of demonetisation
Patna May 26 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday questioned benefits of the much-hyped demonetisation move to common people and slammed banks that allegedly helped rich and powerful manage their cash during notebandi.
"I was supporter of demonetisation...but how many people benefited from it? Some powerful people shifted their cash from one place to another " said Kumar at a meeting with bank officials here.
It is first time that Kumar who is also president of the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) -- a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ally has questioned the demonetisation move of the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government.
Incidentally Kumar s utterances against the December 2016 demonetisation move came on a day when the party was celebrating completion of four years of Modi government at the Centre.
After the Chief Minister expressed his reservations about the benefits of demonetisation to the man on street senior BJP leader and Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi who was also present downplayed his statement saying: "Nitish Kumar has been a supporter of demonetisation."
In 2016 Kumar then part of a Grand Alliance of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Congress had supported demonetisation while RJD chief Lalu Prasad had opposed the move.
--IANS ik/nir
"I was supporter of demonetisation...but how many people benefited from it? Some powerful people shifted their cash from one place to another " said Kumar at a meeting with bank officials here.
It is first time that Kumar who is also president of the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) -- a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ally has questioned the demonetisation move of the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government.
Incidentally Kumar s utterances against the December 2016 demonetisation move came on a day when the party was celebrating completion of four years of Modi government at the Centre.
After the Chief Minister expressed his reservations about the benefits of demonetisation to the man on street senior BJP leader and Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi who was also present downplayed his statement saying: "Nitish Kumar has been a supporter of demonetisation."
In 2016 Kumar then part of a Grand Alliance of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Congress had supported demonetisation while RJD chief Lalu Prasad had opposed the move.
--IANS ik/nir
