Meeting the President for the third time since demonetisation, TMC MPs on Wednesday accused the Modi Government of having imposed a “super emergency” by launching the exercise and engaging in “vendetta politics” by arresting two party lawmakers after it opposed the “draconian” move.
Speaking to reporters after marching from the South Avenue to Rashtrapati Bhawan to protest against the note ban, the MPs also held Prime Minister Narendra Modi responsible for the death of 120 people, caused allegedly by the move, and sought President Pranab Mukherjee’s intervention as the situation had turned “grim”.
“After outlining the grim situation, we first had called this (demonetisation) a financial emergency. Today, we believe, as we share concern with the President, this is now a super emergency,” TMC’s Rajya Sabha member Derek O’Brien said, adding that the arrest of two TMC MPs Sudip Bandyopadhyay and Tapas Pal in the Rose Valley chit fund scam case was nothing but vendetta.