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| People With Us On Notes Ban, No Nee |
| People With Us On Notes Ban, No Need To Be Defensive, PM Modi Tells Party
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| INDIA
, 14-November-2016
19:40:31 PM |
| With the opposition plotting a united attack on the government over the shock decision to scrap Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 notes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi this evening met with BJP parliamentarians and told them "the country is with the government".
Parliament begins its winter session on Wednesday; the opening will likely be taken over by opposition leaders like Mamata Banerjee accusing the government of punishing poor people with the decision to remove old high-denomination notes from circulation.
PM Modi was accompanied at this evening's meeting by BJP President Amit Shah, senior ministers Arun Jaitley and Rajnath Singh, and patriarch LK Advani.
To assuage public anger and concerns over the difficulty in accessing new notes, the government has increased the limit on cash withdrawals from bank accounts. But opposition leaders - eight met at a parallel meeting hosted by the Congress this evening - say that the abrupt move to ban the old notes has left the poor cashless and unable to buy essential commodities like groceries. The banned Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 notes made up more than 80 per cent of the currency in circulation. The government has countered that the ban had to be sudden in order to be effective
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