Raghuram Rajan showed mirror to govt, demonetization is ‘Modi made disaster’: Congress

Sharpening its attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Congress today said demonetization was “Modi Made Disaster” and asked him to introspect whether he has moral right to continue after causing harm to India’s economy and decimating it by over Rs 3 lakh crore.

Congress incharge of communication Randeep Surjewala also asked the prime minister to apologise to the nation and hold an immediate inquiry into the alleged demonetization “scam”. He said the entire purpose of demonetization stood defeated after the decision failed to achieve its objectives of curbing black money, fake currency, terror funding and digitisation of financial transactions. “If morality has any basis in our polity, it is time for the Prime Minister to introspect and to think whether he has a moral right to continue in his office even for a day after decimating India’s economy by over Rs 3 lakh crore and causing damage to it,” he told reporters.
Surjewala also said, “He must apologise to the Nation. He must also order an immediate enquiry into the demonetization scam.”

He said one thing is clear that the “disaster of demonetization was nothing but ‘MMD’ ‘Modi Made Disaster'”. He asked who is responsible for this ‘disaster’ in which India’s …read more