Note ban idea was given to Modi by RSS ideologue, claims Rahul

TIL Desk/National/Kalaburagi(Karnataka)/Accusing RSS of trying to “capture” every institution in the country, Congress President Rahul Gandhi has said it was a “particular ideologue” of the Sangh Parivar outfit who gave the idea of the note ban to the Prime Minister.

“Do you know where the idea of note bandi (note ban) came from? Do you know who gave the idea of note bandi to the Prime Minister of India? It was not RBI, it was not Arun Jaitley (Finance Minister), it was not an officer in the Finance Ministry,” Gandhi said.

“It was a particular ideologue of the RSS. Now you imagine the RSS places an idea into the Prime Minister’s mind and the Prime Minister launches that idea,” he said.

Suggesting it was the design of RSS and BJP, who are convinced that it is only they who know everything and are taking such “disastrous” decisions, he said even a child would say it was not a good idea to “destroy” Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes that allowed corrupt to convert black money into white.

The Congress President was speaking during an interaction with professionals and business community on the last day of his four day ‘Janashirvad Yatra’, in the northern Karnataka region here.