United Opposition attacks Modi government over note ban in Parliament

Parties demand PM's apology to nation, also slam govt over surgical strikes, MNREGA, other issues

A united Opposition in the Lok Sabha used demonetisation to launch an attack on the government on Monday, as the House started debating the motion of thanks to the President’s address to Parliament on January 31.

Leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge, demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi apologise for the note ban. “You can fool some of people for some time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time,” he said, quoting former US President Abraham Lincoln. 

“This is a failure on all fronts,” he added. Modi was in the House as Kharge