Mann Ki Baat now Modi ki baat': Mamata Banerjee

Kolkata: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi accusing him of destabilising India’s economy and growth after his decision of demonetisation.

“Modiji, you have finished India’s economy and growth,” Ms Banerjee tweeted immediately after the Prime Minister made the biggest public push for a “cashless economy” on his monthly Mann Ki Baat radio address claiming that demonetisation of high value currency notes was a step forward to rid the country of unaccounted hidden wealth and corruption..

The Trinamul Congress supremo described the Prime Minister’s Mann Ki Baat as Modi Ki Baat and posted on her twitter page that “ Maan Ki Baat has now become Modi Ki Baat. Misusing government machinery. Instead of finding solutions to the suffering & pain of millions of people he is doing personal vendetta personal publicity and business” .

Ms Banerjee also strongly rebuffed the Prime Minister’s suggestion for using online apps for money transaction and tweeted, “We don’t trust you or your mismatched wrong technology which you are advertising for. We want technology and progress. But no section of society is to be left out and tortured while doing this.”

She further posted that the women in the country will give the Prime Minister a befitting reply. “The women of our country will give you a befitting reply. They are the mother of India. They are the mother of all, Mr Today’s PM,” she tweeted.

Ms Banerjee, who has been on the protest path right after Mr Modi’s decision of scrapping of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes, will lead a massive rally from College Square to Dharmatala in Kolkata on Monday in protest of demonetisation. “More than one lakh partymen will be on the streets to raise the  decibel against the Modi government highlighting the common people’s suffering due to demonetisation,” a senior Trinamul Congress leader said on Sunday.

Ms Banerjee had been camping in New Delhi throughout last week trying to organise a platform of Opposition parties against the demonetisation issue.

She had met President Pranab Mukherjee twice on the demonetisation issue.

She will leave for Lucknow soon after the rally in Kolkata and address a meeting on the same issue on November 29. She will be in Patna the next day to organise another protest movement. The TMC will also organise protest movement in Tripura and Jharkhand on this issue.