Taking on the opposition for calling demonetisation a "dark day", Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Thursday said it marks a day when the backbone anti-national activities such as terror funding and accumulating black money was broken.
On the second anniversary of note ban, Naqvi said post-demonetisation an attempt was made to vitiate the atmosphere.
The government's measure announced on November 8, 2016, has also increased the tax base, he said.
Naqvi asserted that it was being claimed that the GDP will fall, but it is now about seven per cent.
"It is not a dark day, but marked day when terror funding was stopped and the backbone of black money and anti-national (activities) financing was broken," the minority affairs minister said