On the fifth anniversary of demonetisation, the Congress on Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of “destroying” the country’s economy and said the noteban decision will be marked in the world’s economic history as among the “worst policy blunders”.

On this day in 2016, the prime minister had announced the decision to ban currency notes of denomination Rs 500 and Rs 1,000. “If demonetisation was successful then — Why hasn’t corruption ended? Why didn’t the black money returned? Why hasn’t the economy gone cashless? Why nothing has been done to stop terrorism? Why inflation has not been controlled? #DemonetisationDisaster,” Gandhi tweeted.