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Congress party launched an all-out attack against the Modi government’s demonetisation move, on a day the exercise completed seven years.
Leading the attack on the central leadership, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge termed the demonetization drive the biggest assault on India’s economy and livelihood.
“Indians are still nursing the wound of this mindless giant attack,” he wrote on his X timeline, alleging that the move left lakhs of small businesses shut, job loss, people’s savings destroyed,
Demonetisation was the biggest assault on India’s Economy and Livelihood!
Indians are still nursing the wound of this mindless giant attack!
50 days is what Modi ji wanted…
But 7 years down the line, people of India badly battered and bruised on that fateful night of November…
— Mallikarjun Kharge (@kharge) November 8, 2023
“But seven years down the line, people of India badly battered and bruised on that fateful night of November 8, are still searching for answers!” Kharge said.
“Why were crores of people made to stand in lines, waiting for their own money?”
He also asked whether the ‘black money’ menace wiped off, terror-related incidents stopped, and did fake currency decreased after the demonetization drive.
“Why couldn’t we become a ‘Cashless Economy’ without wiping off 86.4 per cent notes at one go? Hasn’t the Cash in Circulation now soared by a whopping 83 per cent since 2016?” he further asked.
Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi termed the 2016 move to be a well-thought-out conspiracy to destroy employment, stop the income of workers, eliminate small businesses, harm farmers, and break the unorganized economy.
Rahul Gandhi alleged it was an attack on 99 per cent of common Indians to benefit 1 per cent of capitalists.
