The BJP on Wednesday hit out at Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on the demonetisation issue saying it was "unfair" on his part to use the photo of a former soldier for his "nefarious design".
"Some fake photograph of the ex-serviceman has been used by Rahul to criticise demonetisation. Nand lal has been a distinguished soldier of the Army. He has publicly supported Narendra Modi and demonetisation. It is completely unfair," Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said. "This is the level of Rahul . He is determined to make Indian National Congress the Indian Fake News Congress. At least, he must stop insulting soldiers for his nefarious design," he said.
Prasad also took a dig at the Congress leader over his criticism of Gujarat's "historic" development under the BJP and his tweet of his dog 'Pidi'.
Prasad alleged that it was not the first time that the Congress had tried to mislead the people. The party highlighted the pain of a "poor man" in a queue in Karnataka and that person turned out to be a rich Congress leader whose premises were raided by Gov agencies later, the Minister claimed.
The BJP and the Congress have been sparring over the note ban issue with the Opposition parties Wednesday observing 'black day' on the anniversary of the demonetisation . In a counter-move, the BJP is marking it as 'anti-blackmoney day'.
Former PM Manmohan Singh had Tuesday termed demonetisation as "organised loot" and "legalised plunder".
Hitting back, Prasad said the former Prime Minister "seemed to be reading scripts written by someone else, just like Congress vice president".
Criticising Singh, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman alleged that the former Prime Minister looked away when "organised plunder" kept happening during the UPA rule.