The government’s move is seen as an effort to take the sting out of the fierce attack by opposition parties against the notes ban. It has also invited on the panel Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar of the Left, one of the harshest critics of the currency ban and Congress Chief Minister V Narayanaswamy of Puducherry.
The others reportedly tapped for the committee are Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, whose party the BJD give issue based support to the government and has not participated in the notes ban protests of the opposition and the BJP’s Shivraj Singh Chouhan of Madhya Pradesh.
Arun Jaitley called Chandrababu Naidu on the phone on Monday afternoon to ask him to head the panel, news agency Press Trust of India said. Chandrababu Naidu, an ally of the BJP in the National Democratic Alliance or NDA, has been seeking a ban on high value notes as a way to curb corruption.
