Sharad Yadav slammed demonetisation, Nitish favoured

TIL Desk/National/Patna/ Taking a stand different from JD(U) President Nitish Kumar, party leader Sharad Yadav today slammed demonetisation as an “unplanned and short-sighted” decision and said BJP will be thrown out of power like the forced ‘nasbandi’ (vasectomy) during Emergency caused Congress’ downfall.

“Nasbandi (vasectomy) had thrown Congress out of power and now ‘notebandi’ (demonetisation) will throw BJP out of power.” The move has created chaos and mess across the country, he alleged.

The JD(U) leader suggested the decision was taken in a hurry after names of certain leaders cropped up for taking bribe from a corporate group and the matter was set to come up for judicial hearing.

The stand of Yadav, a Rajya Sabha member, is in contrast to that of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar who has been praising the decision to invalidate Rs 1000 and Rs 500 currency notes and had demanded more action against black money.

“I am in favour of the decision to demonetise Rs 1000 and Rs 500 notes which will help end ‘2 number ka dhanda’ (illegal business),” Nitish had said, though he criticised the Centre for not making proper arrangements leading to inconvenience to the common man.