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Trade unions joined the country-wide protest against demonetization in Assam on Saturday, accusing the Centre of making life miserable for commoners by withdrawing the now-defunct Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes. At a time when both the Centre and the state government are putting in all efforts to switch over to cashless mode of transaction, the trade unions lashed out at the Centre for allegedly making life of lakhs of tea garden workers miserable. Activists of INTUC, CITU, AITUC, AICCTU, AIUTUC and HMS, along with employees from banking, insurance, railways and telecommunication sectors, staged a massive protest on the banks of the Dighalipukhuri here demanding an end to the miseries of people.
