NEW DELHI: Hitting the Central Government, Leader of Congress Rahul gandhi on Thursday he said demonetization was an attack on India informal sector which mainly included poor workers, farmers and small merchants.
His comment came in the second video of his new series on “How the Modi government has destroyed the Indian economy” in which he said there was an ulterior motive for giving up corporate loans after taking money from the unorganized sector. .
“The demonetization was an attack on the country’s working poor, farmers and small traders. The demonetization was an attack on the disorganized sector. On November 8, 2016, the Prime Minister Narendra modi announced the decision that the 500 rupee and 1000 rupee notes will no longer be legal tender. All of India was off the banks, “he said.
The congressional leader said that the threat of the circulation of black money has not ended and the poor suffer the most due to demonetization.
“Who then benefited? India’s biggest billionaires got the benefit. Money was taken out of their pockets and the government used that money to forgive their loans,” he said.
“There was an ulterior motive. The motive was to get money out of the unorganized sector. The prime minister himself said he wants a cashless India. If there will be a cashless India, then the unorganized sector will be over. Farmers, workers, small traders, Small and medium-sized companies suffered losses. We must identify this attack. And the whole country has to fight it, “he said.
In the first video posted on August 31, the former head of Congress alleged that the NDA government has been targeting the informal sector for the past 6 years and stated that the goal of demonetization, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) “wrong” and blocking is to destroy this sector.
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