Oppn launches scathing attack on Centre on fifth anniversary of demonetisation

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 8 2016 announced his governmentrsquos decision on national television to ban all currency notes of higher denomination of 500 and 1000 from midnight on the same day The lsquodraconianrsquo move known as demonetisation has been facing flak from opposition parties ever sinceOn the fifth anniversary of demonetisation several opposition leaders on Monday slammed the ruling partyrsquos move by calling it a ldquodisasterrdquoCongress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra hit out at the Centre and termed demonetisation a disaster and asked if the step has been successful why hasnt corruption ended and black money returned to the countryIf demonetization was successful then Why hasnt corruption ended Why didnt the black money returned Why hasnt the economy gone cashless Why nothing has been done to stop terrorism Why inflation has not been controlled DemonetisationDisaster Gandhi tweeted in Hindi on the fifth anniversary of demonetisation DemonetisationDisastermdash Priyanka Gandhi Vadra priyankagandhi November 8 2021Nationalist Congress Party NCP leader Nawab Malik too slammed ruling party saying neither black money came nor corruption has been controlled in five years instead the unemployment has been increased mdash Nawab Malik nawabmalikncp November 8 2021Trinamool Congress leader Derek OBrien took to twitter on Monday and said ldquoOnly Mamata Banerjee got it spot onrdquo He shared a screengrab of five tweets by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee calling out the lsquodraconianrsquo decisionOn the night of 8 November 2016 barely hours after Demonetisation was announced only MamataOfficial got it spot on Five tweets calling out the draconian decision Take a look Black_Day_Indian_Economy pictwittercomzpdmkFnZZMmdash Derek OBrien derekobrienmp November 8 2021Also read Prime Minister Modi shifting goalposts on demonetisation CongressCongress Lok Sabha MP Manish Tewari said that the demonetisation by the BJPled government at the Centre had failed to achieve any of its objectives in the last five yearsOther reactions8th Nov will forever be remembered as Black day for Indian economyIts on this day in 2016 when unplanned unorganised govt announced Demonetisation amp destroyed livelihood of lakhs of peopleTill date common people are suffering due to aftereffects of this disastrous decisionmdash HariprasadBK HariprasadBK2 November 8 2021 ___ pictwittercomGK67KnzY0Qmdash Srinivas BV srinivasiyc November 8 20216037 rise in cash with public and increased terrorist activities in Kashmir proves that Demonetization not just failed miserably but was one of the biggest frauds in human history affecting over 100 cr people It has ruined the economy amp destroyed millions of jobsmdash Prithviraj Chavan prithvrj November 8 2021Five years ago on this day Modi Govts decision of Demonetization was announced which crippled the Indian economy The nation is still sufferingDr Manmohan Singh had rightly called Demonetization a case of organised loot amp legalised plunder pictwittercomYSCx5BAteomdash Ruchira Chaturvedi RuchiraC November 8 2021