Wednesday, Apr 17, 2024 | Last Update : 03:01 AM IST
Note ban will take India back by 100 years: Mamata in Delhi
She was speaking at a joint rally with Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in Azadpur in the national capital.
New Delhi: Slamming the Modi government for demonetisation, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday claimed that the move would ‘take India back by 100 years’.
Banerjee said that such a crisis had not been seen even during the Emergency.
She was speaking at a joint rally with Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in Azadpur in the national capital.
Labeling demonetisation ‘the biggest scam since Independence,’ Kejriwal demanded that the currency ban should be rolled back in 3 days.
Mamata and Kejriwal then held a protest outside the Reserve Bank of India branch in Delhi.
Kejriwal's visit to Gujarat has been postponed as he will address a joint rally in Delhi with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday, Aam Aadmi Party said in Delhi earlier on Thursday.
The AAP had on Wednesday announced that Kejriwal will be on a two-day visit to Gujarat from today to inaugurate a special ward and operation theatre of a hospital run by a local party leader in Mahuva town of Bhavnagar district.
"As it was decided that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will address a joint rally in Delhi, his Gujarat visit has been postponed," AAP's media coordinator Harshil Nayak said.
"Instead of Kejriwal, Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain will be coming to Mahuva to inaugurate the new facilities at Sadbhavna Trust Hospital run by AAP leader Kanu Kalsaria," he added.
Mamata Banerjee had, along with the leaders of AAP, Shiv Sena and National Conference had on Wednesday met President Pranab Mukherjee, seeking an immediate withdrawal of the demonetisation exercise. They submitted a memorandum voicing serious concern over the crisis arising out of an ban on Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 currency notes.
Banerjee led a march to the Rashtrapati Bhavan from Parliament along with the Trinamul Congress MPs, AAP MP Bhagwant Mann, Shiv Sena MP Anandrao Adsul, NC leader and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah among others.
