"Seeing through his own glasses Chidambaram, with his myopic vision, and Congress, which is drenched in corruption, are trying to see corruption in every developmental activity, only to misguide people and spread falsehood on the issue," he said in a statement here.
The cash recall exercise had people's acceptance as seen in the results of several elections held since the note ban was announced on November 8, the BJP leader said.
"Even the President of India said the nation will be benefited by demonetisation," the Minister said.
Saying that queues outside banks and ATMs have disappeared, Dattatreya said only Congress leaders are complaining now.
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"Now the queues in banks and ATMs have disappeared. Only the Congress people and others like them who encouraged black money all along their lives are complaining against demonetisation."
Describing note-ban as a "thoughtless, ill conceived" attempt by the NDA Government, Chidambaram yesterday said here the whole exercise has created more corruption.
"So the very exercise generated more corruption not less corruption. So they (the NDA Government) changed the narration to cashless economy now," the former Union Finance Minister has said.