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NAGPUR: Amol Deshmukh , national coordinator, research department, All India Congress Committee and member of media and communications wing of the state unit, said on February 9 that more than seven crore persons were rendered unemployed, directly or indirectly, due to demonetization fallout. “One should come forward and vote to make a difference,” he said while replying to queries posed by students. “Former PM Manmohan Singh wanted the unorganized manpower sector to have a separate commission for them,” said the upcoming politician who anchored the work for developing the party manifesto for Gujarat elections in 2018. He claimed to have come across data and details of the DeMon havoc while working with ground level workers and masses during political visits, interactions and agrarian agitations across India.Deshmukh, younger son of former minister Ranjeet Deshmukh, said the incumbent BJP government at the centre has alienated the unorganized sector which occupied 70% of the economy. “A special report on Gujarat government in the past showed how it had been neglecting two most crucial sectors of education and health,” he said.Describing the Indian democratic pattern as liberal, Deshmukh claimed that principles and systems earlier prevalent in the country have taken a major hit in the last five years..