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Rahul Gandhi calls note ban move of Centre as 'disaster'

| | Oct 30, 2017, at 09:48 pm

New Delhi, Oct 30 (IBNS): Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Monday called the Centre's decision to ban old Rs. 500 and Rs. 2000 currency notes last year as a 'disaster'.

The senior Congress leader said GST was a “torpedo” which destroyed the economy.

"The Prime Minister is still unable to understand the pain of the people," Gandhi told media.

He said Nov 8, which is the day when the Centre have announced the move of note ban last year, is a 'sad day' for the country.

"I don’t know what they are going to celebrate," he attacked the BJP as the ruling party will observe the day as Anti Black Money Day.

"The move of note ban was an out and out disaster," he said.

"Today, we had two meetings, one on demonetisation and the other on GST. In the demonetisation meeting we discussed how the country has suffered and many small businesses have closed due to it. In the GST meeting, it was discussed how a good idea was destroyed. The government has wrongly implemented it," Gandhi said.
Image: Congress Twitter page video grab

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