Azamgarh: Hitting out at the parties criticising
the Centre's demonetisation decision, BJP president Amit Shah on Thursday said
they are only "exposing themselves", as anyone who is clean has no
reason to oppose the move.
"BJP
leaders are not worried with this [demonetisation] move. Those who have black
money, they are rattled. If they are clean then why they are opposing this
move?
"Mayawati, Congress, Samajwadi Party, Mamata, Communists, Kejriwal... all are raising
hue and cry [over demonetisation]. Why are you all crying foul? Why are you
exposing yourself before the public?" he told BJP's parivartan
yatra rally in SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav's Lok
Sabha constituency.
File photo of Amit Shah.
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"Akhilesh bhai [Chief
Minister Akhilesh Yadav]... what are you concerned
about? We did not have black money so there is no question of it going away. In
just one stroke, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has rendered the notes
of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 useless," Shah said in his typical style.
He said
all the money with terrorists, drug mafia, naxals and corrupt black marketeers
has been reduced to mere scrap.
"People
have to stand in queues and we too are concerned... when big decisions are
taken they give some problems but it makes the lives of others happy,"
Shah said, adding this (step) will bring down inflation and check black
marketing and all fake currency notes from Pakistan will become useless.
With
demonetisation creating hardships to the people in the middle of marriage and
sowing seasons, the BJP chief said the prime minister today allowed withdrawals
up to Rs 2.5 lakh for weddings and up to Rs 50,000 for farmers.
Besides,
farmers who have taken crop loan or have Kisan Credit Card can withdraw Rs
25,000 per week.
The BJP
president said Uttar Pradesh needs a government which can make the state the
most prosperous in the country.
"The
law and order situation is so bad that crime graph is at an all time high...SP
and BSP cannot develop the state... only BJP government can develop Uttar
Pradesh," he said.
Stating
that land mafias were having a field day during the SP government, Shah warned that
if his party comes to power, none of them (land mafias) will be spared.
Asserting
that the government avenged the Uri attack on soldiers by killing the
terrorists in their home, Shah said this act of bravery was termed as 'Khoon Ki
Dalali' by Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi.
"Pakistan
backed terrorists in a coward act killed our armymen in Uri. But we did not sit
idle, we gave them befitting reply by killing terrorists in their
home..and Rahul Gandhi termed it as 'khoon ki
dalali'," Shah said.
Speaking
about the various policy initiatives taken by the Modi government for uplift of
poor and backward sections of the society, Shah said government launched
schemes but the uncle-nephew government of Uttar Pradesh government is not
implementing them.
He also
spoke at length on Modi government's contribution in Uttar Pradesh,
achievements of central government, surgical strikes and schemes for the poor,
farmers, women, youth, backward, scheduled castes and villages.