This time it was not a Congress government but the Narendra Modi government of the BJP. Because of the leadership and will power of the Prime Minister, for the first time in independent India, we gave a fitting reply by entering the enemy’s own home… this one decision changed the way the world looks at India.”
Targeting the Opposition parties for what he called their negative politics, Shah said one spoke of “khoon ki dalali” and another demanded proof — he did not take names but the references were to Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
He told the gathering that no country had ever taken a decision to demonetise 86 per cent of its currency notes in circulation. Listing the benefits of demonetisation, he mentioned the crackdown on black money and fake currency, the body blow to trade in drugs and Naxalism because of resource constraint, a fatal blow to corruption and cleaning up elections.
“Despite the best efforts of the Opposition to mislead and inconvenience, people of India stood firmly behind the Prime Minister’s decision to demonetise. It was taken in the interest of the country. It is on this foundation that we will build a developed India. All surveys post demonetisation make it amply clear that approximately 75 per cent of the country’s population is with this decision. We have scored bigger success in the post demonetisation elections,” Shah said.
