Mamata at Jantar Mantar: You're targeting common man, not Swiss account holders

November 23, 2016 15:18

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee speaks at protest rally against demonetization at Jantar Mantar:

- You (the government) are targeting shops, famlilies and lives of common people. Are you targeting Swiss Banks? No.

- Labourers are not getting their wages. Whom will I take their pain and voices to?

- Most of industries are on standstill, labour and working class is not getting their daily wages and not able to eat anything.

- The BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) will get a befitting reply in the upcoming elections due to demonetisation.

- This protest is not about election. The government should understand that whatever they did is affecting normal people.

- When our country's economy was moving at a steady rate, the government brought in demonetisation that really shuffled our country.

- I challenge the BJP that this time nobody will support their party, even their own workers will abandon them.

- Government has lost all the credibility, and if credentials are lost, everything is lost.

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