PM Modi "destroyed" India's economy by demonetisation: Mallikarjun Kharge
Hyderabad(PTI): Senior Congress leader and Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi "destroyed" India's economy through demonetisation.
"Today it is five years since Modi ji announced demonetisation on November 8, 2016.
Unemployment has risen, small businesses have been hit and closed. He (Modi) spoiled the country's good economy through demonetisation," Kharge told reporters. On this day in 2016, the Prime Minister had announced the decision to ban currency notes in the denomination of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000.
The veteran leader also hit out at the Modi government over the various objectives cited for demonetisation, including to curb black money flow.
"Today the situation is that people who lost their jobs due to demonetisation their jobs have not come back. This is a 'Black Day' for people of the country. Today the currency notes in circulation continues to rise with over Rs 28 lakh crore," the former Union Minister said.
On former Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Vinod Rai, who recently tendered an apology to Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam, Kharge said it vindicated the Congress consistent stand that the entire 2G spectrum case was a massive "conspiracy" backed by the BJP-RSS machinery to destabilise the (then) Manmohan Singh-led UPA government. Rai had tendered an unconditional apology to Nirupam for "wrongly mentioning him as one of the MPs who had pressured him not to name former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the CAG report on the 2G spectrum allocation.
Kharge accused Rai of acting as another puppet of the conspiracy and also demanded that he apologise to the nation for his "lies".
He also slammed the BJP-led NDA government over the "small" reduction in petrol and diesel prices, saying "it was too little and too late will not benefit the people much.
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Woman, 2 sons found dead in Delhi home; suicide suspected
New Delhi (PTI): Three members of a family were found dead inside their home in southeast Delhi's Kalkaji on Friday, with police suspecting it to be a case of suicide, officials said.
Police said the incident came to light around 2.47 pm when a police team reached the premises to execute a court order related to possession of the property. When repeated knocks went unanswered, the staff used a duplicate key to open the door.
Inside, officers found Anuradha Kapoor (52) and her sons, Ashish Kapoor (32) and Chaitanya Kapoor (27), hanging from the ceiling, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Southeast) Hemant Tiwari said in a statement. All three were declared dead.
A handwritten note was recovered from the room, suggesting the family had been struggling with depression.
"The handwritten note indicates emotional distress faced by the family due to which the family may have taken the extreme step," the officer said.
The bodies have been shifted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) mortuary for post-mortem and other legal formalities under Section 194 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), police said.
Residents of the neighbourhood said they were shocked to learn about the deaths, adding that the family kept largely to themselves.
Pankaj Kashyap, a resident of Girinagar, said he learnt about the deaths while leaving for work. "I live and work here and was leaving for work when I saw many people standing outside and talking. That is how I got to know that three people had committed suicide. I also saw several police vehicles outside, but I do not know much beyond that," he said.
Baldev, another neighbour, said the family had been living in the newly constructed house for around two years. "We only knew that a mother and her two children lived there. They had moved into the newly built house around two years ago. We did not interact much with them. Today we heard that all three have committed suicide, and whatever we know is based on what people here are saying," he said.
Another neighbour, Ramesh Kumar, claimed the family had earlier attempted suicide.
"About fifteen to twenty days ago, the two sons in the family had attempted suicide and police and ambulances had come. That was when I first got to know who they were. I do not recognise them by face, but we saw the ambulances and police take the two sons that day. Today again we saw ambulances and police arriving, so everyone came out to see what had happened. I do not know how long they had been living here, but this is all we know," he said.
Police said they are examining the family's financial condition, social circumstances, and other factors that may have contributed to the incident. Further investigation is underway.
