Photo: Hindustan TimesKolkata: Describing the centre’s decision of scrapping Rs1,000 and Rs 500 currency notes as “heartless and ill-conceived” which will lead to a “financial chaos”, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday demanded an immediate withdrawal of the “draconian decision”. Banerjee accused the Modi government of “scripting a drama to divert the attention from its failure to bring back black money from abroad”. While I’m strongly against black money, corruption, deeply concerned about common people, small traders. CPM politburo member Mohammed Salim said, “We are always in support of unearthing black money. But, after two-and-a-half years of silence on the issue, the centre all of a sudden decided to scrap the Rs500 and Rs1,000 currency notes.

Source: Mint November 08, 2016 18:49 UTC