Ravi Shankar Prasad says demonetisation is like labour pain, results will bring joy; Twitteratti not too joyful

This is not the first time that a BJP leader has compared the current crisis that India is going through, to labour pain.

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RS Prasad’s recent remark on demonetisation has come under the scanner for obvious reasons. (Source: Express photo by Ravi Kanojia)

It has been more than a month that the Prime Minister announced the demonetisation of high-value currency notes of old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000. Since then, while many continue to stand in ATM and bank queues to withdraw money even now, the PM and the government has often tried to convince the people and the opposing leaders that the move is for the larger good of the country, including the weeding out of black money, corruption and illegal activities like terrorism. Veteran BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad recently made a comment supporting demonetisation that did not go down well with a lot of people. “People will face a little problem. But the pain is like the one that a woman in labour undergoes. Eventually one will experience the joy like one does hearing the first cry of a baby,” Prasad said, according to PTI.

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While this is not the first time that a BJP leader had made a similar comment, this time Twitterati took on the comment, all guns blazing. People were definitely not happy with the simile that the leaders have increasingly used in the past one month. AIB’s Rohan Joshi reacted to the comment asking if the leader knew that 45,000 women die during childbirth every year in India, when he compared demonetisation to labour pain. All India Trinamool Congress’ member Derek O’Brien called the remark “absurd analogies”. Others interpreted Prasad’s remark as meaning that there probably are eight months more to go, before things settle down in the country.

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Sample some of the reactions that the comment garnered, here.

When @rsprasad compared #Demonetisation to labour pain, I wonder if he knew that 45,000 women die during childbirth every year in India

— Rohan (@mojorojo) 19 December 2016

Labour pain of @rsprasad #Demonetisation took one more death of innocent Indian, and attempt to suicide by two others @ShainaNC @BJP4India pic.twitter.com/9OMAM04v6X

— bilal motorwala (@bilal_motorwala) 18 December 2016

So @rsprasad is the right person to know what this “labour pain” is?https://t.co/DmKypF4YXH

— JayKay (@JayKay074) 17 December 2016

Plz do a Cesearen cut so that baby can come out easily and all of us can avoid the pain! https://t.co/aEoEnyBWZb via @economictimes

— Biswajit Mohanty (@biswajitmohanty) 16 December 2016

@rsprasad @JantaKaReporter ye labour pain sirf garibo ko kyo ????? Labour pain politician, businessman ko kyo nahi ho raha….

— Devkinandan Patodia (@iamchintu72) 17 December 2016

@Bharatitis @sanjayuvacha @sabrangindia and how do @rsprasad knows the labour pain exactly ?

— Bulla (@Naamhaibulla) 18 December 2016

@mojorojo @rsprasad No, no he didn’t. And could men pls stop comparing stuff w/ labour pains, they have no damn clue what they feel like!

— SinceYouAsk.. (@kavithagops) 19 December 2016

@rsprasad @timesofindia The inconvenience if any, is “Labour Pain”. “Painful Pleasure”!

— bangalore (@bangalo86307793) 23 November 2016

Earlier, in November, Union information and broadcasting minister Venkaiah Naidu made the same comparison, as well. According to a Times of India report, Naidu said, “A mother undergoes huge labour pain while giving birth to a child. But when she hears the child of the newborn, she feels the greatest joy”. Uttar Pradesh governor Ram Naik too, said the hardships arising out of demonetisation is like labour pain, and the end results will be joyful.

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