Lucknow, April 8 -- Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday said that the fall of about Rs 19 lakh crore in the stock market in a single day is an indication of a great depression for the Indian economy.
In a statement issued here, Akhilesh said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has emptied the pockets of the countrymen not only by inflation and corruption but also by the great fall of the stock market.
He said, "The public should not forget that these are the same people who, while holding constitutional posts, had lured the common people in an illegal way to invest money in shares. The heartless middlemen who earn money from every purchase and sale of shares do not have even an iota of sympathy for the i...