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News Desk: On the five year anniversary of demonetization, Oppositions launched an attack on the saffron party over the move.
TMC Rajya Sabha member Derek O’Brien shared a screenshot of five tweets from the West Bengal Chief Minister on the night of November 8, 2016 – the day PM Modi announced the notes ban.
“Withdraw this draconian decision” said her first tweet barely hours after demonetisation was announced. She also attacked the PM in a subsequent tweet, saying that the decision was “drama” to “divert his failure” because he couldn’t get back black money from abroad as promised during elections. She further called it “a financial chaos” and “disaster let loose on the common people of India”. She expressed her concern for daily wage workers, small traders, and the common people. “While I am strongly against black money, corruption, deeply concerned…How will they buy essentials tomorrow” she said.
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra also took to Twitter to criticise the move, using the hashtag #DemonetisationDisaster. She asked why the stated purpose of demonetisation had not been realised.
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had in 2016 famously called demonetisation a “monumental disaster” in a speech in the Rajya Sabha. Blaming PM Modi directly for making people suffer, he used strong words like “organised plunder” and “legalised loot” to describe it. He had also compared the move to “shooting on tyre of a fast-moving car”.
