BJP responsible for deaths due to demonetisation: Sachin Pilot

JAIPUR: Rajasthan Congress chief Sachin Pilot today held the BJP responsible for the deaths in queues outside banks to exchange demonetised notes in the state and the country.

"People are dying as a consequence of demonetisation. Several people fell sick standing in queues to exchange notes and lost their lives. The government is solely responsible for such unfortunate incidents," he alleged.

It is also unfortunate that the Chief Minister (Vasundhara Raje) did not give any directions to officers in the ongoing Collector-SP conference to provide relief to people who are facing hardships due to the crisis of currency notes, he said.

"Vidhyarti Mitras have also committed suicide because the state government did not fulfil its promise to regularise them," Pilot alleged.

The BJP government in the state is completing three years, but has failed to fulfil its promises to unemployed youths, Vidhyarti Mitras and others, he said in a statement here.