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. He was addressing students of mass communication at Dhanwate National College on the topic ‘Democracy, election and good governance’.Deshmukh, a medical graduate who has worked several years for international companies before turning to politics, lambasting DeMon policy said it went ahead to give the poverty graph an upswing in the Indian economy in the last five years. 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. “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. “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. “The diversity which India would once boast of is lost today.”While discussing electoral politics, Deshmukh said parties need to know the demands and expectations of the masses as the ones in the race for power through democratic system follows the populist paths.Deshmukh, whose working constituency is Ramtek, said Nagpur’s tehsil place is far more important as far as Ram’s journey of life is concerned than Ayodhya, where Ram was apparently born. “BJP does not talk about Ramtek but they concentrate on Ayodhya because of their own vested interests,” he said.Deshmukh, who was flanked by DNC’s mass communication head-of-the department Baban Nakhle, professors Anand Manjarkhede and Kavita Patil from MBA department, also said that the criminalization of politics depends upon an individual’s choice and not party’s agenda. “One should come forward and vote to make a difference,” he said while replying to queries posed by students.

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