Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 8: State BJP observed November 8 as an “anti-black money day” and held party meetings and functions at district headquarters to apprise the people about the benefits of the bold decision taken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi led Central Government to curb the menace of black money and corruption unleashed by the previous Congress led Governments.
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On this day last year, Modi had announced ban on old notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 denomination to rid country of corruption and black money and BJP decided to observe the day as anti black money day henceforth.
The District Jammu West and East organised an intellectuals meet at Party Headquarters Trikuta Nagar in this regard.
BJP State president & MLA, Sat Sharma chaired the meet along with Rajya Sabha MP, Shamsher Singh Manhas, MLC Ashok Khajuria, State general secretary Harinder Gupta and MLA Rajesh Gupta at BJP Headquarters at Trikuta Nagar, attended by a large number of party leaders and intellectuals from society.
Sat Sharma, while addressing the gathering, said that before demonetization, a parallel economy used to be run in the nation, involving a large amount of counterfeit currency being circulated in the country from across the border which was totally destroyed by the smart move of demonetization. He said that in place of large amount of black money in market now the maximum transactions have come to the white.
Sharma said that the demonetization move has led to the multifaceted benefits to the Indian economy and the society and few of them can be listed as the clearly evident downfall in the incidents of stone pelting in Kashmir from last year, decreased operation of Naxalite movement in some States. Earlier corruption was on peak and fictitious accounts were opened which have now ceased to exist. He also mentioned the crackdown on shell companies. He said that the main hue and cry on the demonetization is being raised by the corrupt politicians who were involved from 2-G to Coal Gate involving all type of corrupt practices looting money from innocent, poor population.
Shamsher Singh Manhas appreciated the bold decision of demonetization taken by the Central Government and said that it will go a long way in leading the nation to the path of its pristine glory.
Shiban Khaibari, senior journalist and columnist, while enumerating the benefits of demonetization, also gave the examples of Amartya Sen a noble laureate for economy and others, who appreciated the steps of “Swacch Bharat”, “demonetization” and “cashless economy” for making up of a great nation.
Arun Gupta, State spokesperson, provided the gathering the insight and overview of the benefits and the merits of demonetization.
Advocate Onkar Seth spoke on the ways of going digital for the monetary transactions and its merits.
CA Deepak Kapahi informed about the benefits of less cash economy and said that it discourages corruption and black money.
A presentation in this regard was also presented by the BJP State Incharge IT & Social Media Jaidev Rajwal.
Harinder Gupta conducted the proceedings of the stage.
Similar programmes were held in Seri Bazar, Bhaderwah in presence of district president Manjeet Razdan, Dak Banglow Rajouri in presence of Pahari Board VC, Kuldeep Raj Gupta, senior leaders, Bharat Bhushan Vaid, Dev Raj Sharma and district president Dinesh Sharma, Sunderbani-Nowshera in presence of district president Som Dutt Sharma, Udhampur in presence of district president Rakesh Mahajan, Kishtwar in presence of organization secretary, Harbans Singh, Kashmir displaced district in presence of district president Chandji Bhat, Kathua in presence of district president Prem Nath Dogra.
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