Mandate is for doing what is good for people: Shah on note ban

Mandate is for doing what is good for people: Shah on note ban
Mandate is for doing what is good for people: Shah on note ban

NEW DELHI: Rallying around the Government over the demonetisation issue as it faces attack from a united Opposition, top BJP leaders today asserted that there is wide spread support from people for the decision and the criticism is merely confined to rival parties.

Chairing a meeting of office-bearers, BJP president Amit Shah said here that the mandate the party has received is not for doing what merely looks good to people but to do what is good for them and hailed the note ban as a “visionary” step and a reflection of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political will to change the fundamentals of Indian economy.

With little relief for people from standing in long queues outside banks and ATMs to get cash, BJP’s rivals have closed ranks to target the Government but its top leaders exuded confidence that they can sell the decision to masses as something that is in the country’s interests.

“Demonetisation is a visionary decision of political will aimed at curbing black money and corruption. The parties criticising it are doing so out of political malice. But the mandate we have received is not for taking decisions which merely look good to people but which are good for them.

“We will not remain confined to small reforms but bring about fundamental changes in the economy,” Shah told the meeting of office-bearers on a day when Parliament saw another day of washout with treasury benches and opposition trading charges. (AGENCIES)