New Delhi: Opposition leaders on Saturday attacked the government over the withdrawal of Rs 2000 currency notes from circulation with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee describing it as “Tughlaqi demonetization drama” and Congress wondering if this was the second “notebandi” exercise.
The BJP rejected this was any sort of demonetization and instead reminded Congress that even during the rule of Manmohan Singh, old currency notes were taken off circulation.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday made the surprise announcement but gave the public time till September 30 to either deposit Rs 2000 notes in accounts or exchange them at banks. It said it had asked banks to stop issuing Rs 2000 notes with immediate effect.
Banerjee said this move would “hit common people hard once again”. In a tweet, she said, “Another whimsical and Tughlaqi demonetization drama of Rs 2,000 notes will hit the common people hard once again by subjecting them to massive harassment. These imperious measures are meant to camouflage the fundamentally anti-people & crony capitalist nature of this regime. “Such misadventure by an oligarchic & authoritarian government will not be forgotten by the people at large at the time of reckoning.”
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge called for an impartial probe into the entire episode. In a tweet in Hindi, he said, “You inflicted a deep wound on the economy with the first demonetization. Due to this, the entire unorganized sector was destroyed, MSMEs were closed down and crores of jobs were lost. “Now, the ‘second demonetization’ of? 2000 note… Is this a cover-up of a wrong decision? Only an unbiased investigation will reveal the truth of the matter.”
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