"We want to know with whom did the Central government hold discussion about demonetisation. The government should issue a white paper on this," senior party leader Digvijay Singh told reporters here.
"A Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) should probe the entire issue of demonetisation which helped BJP and its men convert black money into assets," he said.
Singh alleged that even the Prime Minister's Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian and other officials were in the dark about the impending demonetisation.
Singh, a Rajya Sabha member, was in the state capital as part of the party's strategy to get people acquainted with the Congress' view on demonetisation.
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Terming demonetisation as the "biggest scam of India", Singh alleged that Punjab BJP's legal cell co-convenor Sanjeev Kamboj had put his photograph on social media with wads of new notes of Rs 2,000 that raises a question mark on the BJP leaders having free access to new currency notes when the common people are standing in lines to withdraw money.
Asserting that the demonetisation move was an utter
failure of governance, the Congress veteran said that the decision was taken in a haste which not only created "economic anarchy and chaos" but also made the entire nation stand in queues to withdraw their hard-earned money.
The decision also helped counterfeit currency getting "legalised" in the process, Singh said while explaining that out of Rs 14.50 lakh crore of scrapped notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000, Rs 10 lakh crore has already been deposited in banks and this includes the counterfeit currency in huge volume.
So far 80 people died across the country, Singh claimed adding that the government changed its guidelines vis-a-vis the implementation of demonetisation 105 times till date, which has caused immense hardship and inconvenience to the people.
On Nitish Kumar's support of the demonetisation move, Singh said, "both Congress and Nitish Kumar are supporting the demonetisation. My party is opposing the poor implementation of the scheme and Nitish Kumar also talked about the government's lack of preparedness to deal with the post-demonetisation situation. Where is the contradiction?".