Dubbing the demonetisation of high currency notes as a “huge scam”, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today alleged BJP had told all its “friends” about the move much before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement and demanded its immediate roll back.
He termed the Centre’s decision to demonetise Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes as “surgical strike” on common man’s “small savings” and not on “black marketeers”.
To substantiate his claim, Kejriwal alleged that Sanjeev Kamboj, who heads BJP’s Punjab legal cell, was seen with new notes of Rs 2,000 on social media days before the Prime Minister announced withdrawing high value currency.
“From July to September, there had been a sudden jump in deposits of money in banks which clearly indicates that BJP had told all its friends much before the announcement of demonetisation by the PM. It is a huge scam,” he said in a press conference.
He claimed that black money would not come in the system by demonetisation.
The Chief Minister also showed a news channel’s report which claimed high jump in deposits in banks during July-September quarter, adding that before that period, deposits in banks were “very low”.
