Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday, September 3, released a video criticizing the Narendra Modi-led BJP government's demonetisation move stating that it was an attack on India's poor population and unorganised sector.
Gandhi dubbed the 2016 demonetisation as a move to deliberately harm India’s informal sector, which survives on liquid cash. He claimed that the hidden agenda of demonetisation, which saw the scrapping of all Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes, was to “clear the ground”.
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“Our informal sector works on cash. Small shopkeepers and workers survive on cash. The second target of demonetisation was to take out money from the informal sector. Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the nation that he wants a cashless India. If India goes cashless, small shopkeepers, farmers, and workers will be finished,” Gandhi said in his video series focussing on the Indian economy.
The short videos are the new communication tools for the former Congress president to reach out to a larger audience on social media.
Earlier, he had spoken on the India-China border conflict and the informal sector amid the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak.