Financial emergency going on in the country: Congress' Sushmita Dev

Holding a press conference here on the economic slowdown, Sushmita Dev, the president of All India Mahila Congress,  said, "The country is going through a financial emergency. This sort of financial crisis is unprecedented."

Promising to raise the issue relentlessly, Sushmita said the Congress won't allow the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to deviate the country's attention from the "crisis".

"We had a meeting with Congress president Sonia Gandhi. Sonia Gandhi is crystal clear that the Modi government won't be allowed to sideline the economic issues," the Congress leader said citing the report which had highlighted the country is having the highest unemployment in 45 years and falling down of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to 5 per cent in the last quarter.

"The BJP is responsible for the financial emergency....... It will take many years to come out of this emergency," Sushmita added.

The Congress leader also criticised India's possible entry into the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) saying, "We are not against it by principle but entering into such a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) at this time of economic crisis will be catastrophic. It will be a cold-blooded murder of our farmers, smaller manufacturers and medium-sized industries."

Not just the Centre, the Congress National Spokesperson also attacked the Trinamool Congress-led West Bengal government for not being able to stop "migration of people to other states for works".

"The Modi government is definitely responsible for the economic crisis but also the state government here has failed to reduce the migration of people to other states for works," Sushmita said at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's turf days after five West Bengal labourers were killed in Jammu and Kashmir by terrorists.

The Congress will be protesting across the nation against the Narendra Modi government over economic crisis, unemployment, farm distress and the negative impact of RCEP from Nov 5 to 15.

The grand old party, which is out of power for over five years now, will also organise a protest in Kolkata on Nov 8 over the Centre's demonetisation move which was taken on the same day in 2016.