Demanding roll back of the demonetisation decision, AAP workers, led Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, tried to carry out a protest march towards Parliament from Jantar Mantar but were stopped by police.
Delhi Cabinet ministers Gopal Rai, Kapil Mishra and Satyendar Jain besides scores of party MLAs and leaders also participated in the march. Sisodia and Mishra were detained and released after an hour.
"This is not 'notebandi' but 'note-badli'. Terrorists in Kashmir today were found with Rs 2,000 notes. From where are the terrorists getting these new notes? Either you (Modi) are unaware of the lapse or you are not interested in taking action against those responsible for it," he said.
Referring to Modi getting emotional during his speech in Goa recently while talking about ban on high-value notes, the senior AAP leader said, "He keeps crying all the time and makes people cry. He sheds crocodile tears. The PM who cries on stage is weakening the country.
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A letter written to the people by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is in Punjab, was distributed at the protest site.
"Neither terrorist funding nor counterfeit notes and blackmarketeering have stopped. The government says it has no money to grant OROP to soldiers but waives the loans of industrialists," Sisodia added, noting that his party stands with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on this issue.
A day after Kejriwal exhorted people to "change" the Prime Minister instead of the defunct notes, slogans of "note nahi, PM badlo" were raised at the march.
Taking a jibe at Modi, Delhi Culture Minister Mishra said, "There used to be Shah Rangeela (Mughal emperor from 1719 to 1748) in Delhi who used to give weird 'firmans' (orders). Today, we have another Shah Rangeela here in Narendra Modi."
The Delhi water minister said ever since the decision on demonetisation was taken, labourers are fleeing Delhi.
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