On the seventh anniversary of demonetization, former Congress President Rahul Gandhi took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, suggesting that the move was a carefully planned conspiracy aimed at damaging employment opportunities and destabilizing the unorganized economy.
"Demonetisation was a well thought out conspiracy to destroy employment, to stop the income of workers, to eliminate small businesses, to harm farmers, to break the unorganised economy," Rahul Gandhi wrote on X.
He said, "Attack on 99 per cent common Indians, benefit to one per cent capitalist Modi 'friends'. This was a weapon to pick your pocket - to fill your best friend's bag and make him the second richest person in the world by 609."
On November 8, in a televised address to the nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the decision to demonetize the Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes. The stated reasons for this move were to combat black money and terrorism.
(With Agency Inputs)
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