Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley were locked today in a verbal duel over the demonetisation issue with the opposition leader alleging it was a "huge scam" to help Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "crony capitalist friends" and the senior BJP leader hitting back saying his "little knowledge is dangerous".
Soon after Gandhi addressed a press conference, other BJP leaders also accused the Congress president of being a "non-serious political player", saying he had nothing new to offer and was parroting the same charges.
Gandhi alleged the demonetisation was a "huge scam" deliberately inflicted by the prime minister on common people to snatch their money and give it to his "crony capitalist friends".
A day after the Reserve Bank in its annual report said 99.3 per cent of the junked notes returned to the banking system, Gandhi said the note ban decision was not a mistake but an assault on the common man and the prime minister owes an answer to the country on why he did so.
Hitting back at Gandhi, Jaitley said, "Little knowledge is dangerous. Rahul Gandhi's fiction on 'demonetisation helping NPA holders', forgets that the Modi Government legislated and enforced the IBC where the NPA defaulters lost their companies."
At his press conference, Gandhi said, "Note ban is nothing less than a huge scam and evidence is slowly coming out."
BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra took on the Congress president saying, "It was like a 'parrot pattern press conference' repeating the same allegations."
The Congress chief said the note ban had no positive results and the prime minister has "to answer the country and to the youth who are suffering from unemployment, as to why you inflicted such a wound on the country. What was the reason and logic behind it."
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