NEW DELHI, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- India's main opposition Congress party's second-in-command Rahul Gandhi Wednesday again slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi over demonetization.
He said Modi has destroyed the country's institutions like the central bank to implement his "personal decision" of scrapping the higher denomination currency notes.
Terming Modi's demonetization decision as the worst decision of India's history, Gandhi said: "Never before has a Prime Minister taken such an incompetent and badly thought out decision. For the first time, people are heading out of cities and returning to villages, instead of it being the other way round."
Addressing a meeting of the Congress Working Committee, the party's highest decision-making body, in the national capital, the 46-year-old Nehru-Gandhi scion said good times will come when the party returns to power in 2019, when general elections are scheduled, and ridiculed the prime minister for his various other initiatives "that have failed to cause any major impact."
The prime minister had on November 8 last year, in a sudden televised address to the nation, announced the scrapping of currency notes of 500 rupees (7.5 U.S. dollars) and 1,000 rupees (15 U.S. dollars) to curb the menace of black money and circulation of fake currency notes.
