Patna: While the JD (U) led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar decided to stay away from the protest against demonetisation issue on Monday, RJD and Congress too maintained distance from the shutdown.
The RJD Chief, sources said had directed all first line leaders to keep away from the protest march but allowed only party workers to stage demonstrations against the "poor arrangements occurred due to demonetization drive".
According to Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejaswi Yadav, “The party supported Akrosh march against the demonetization drive and not the nationwide strike because even we are against black money”.
He said that “it was due to government’s poor arrangement that people are facing hardship and secondly the BJP is also trying to show that only their party leaders are honest and rest of the others are a bunch of thieves which is not true”.
Sources said that Nitish Kumar’s support to demonetization drive is being seen as one of the reasons behind Lalu Yadav’s decision to pull himself out from the nationwide strike against the issue.
While Tejaswi Yadav refused to comment on JD (U)’s stand on the demonetization issue, other RJD leaders including some legislators said, “Whatever Nitish Kumar has said about demonetization issue could be his personal opinion but the fact is that people are facing problems and our party is concerned about that”.
Later the ruling congress and RJD along with CPI (ML) shouted slogans against the way in which the demonetization was implemented in the country.
