Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal warns of law and order crisis

New Delhi: Attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi over demonetisation of high-value currency notes, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday warned of a law and order problem across the country. Mr Kejriwal, who is also the AAP chief, took on the PM for saying only hours earlier in Goa that he needed 50 days to end the hardship that came along with the government’s withdrawal of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 bank notes from circulation.

Mounting attack on Mr Modi on demonetisation, Mr Kejriwal demanded immediate rollback of the “poorly implemented scheme” before the situation goes out of hand and said the Union government should introduce some remedial measures in the next 24 hours to salvage the “rapidly sliding” economy.

“People are more nervous after his speech,” Mr Kejriwal said, urging the PM to rollback the demonitisation scheme before the situation spiral out of control.

“What about gold conversion and dollar conversion? Where is the amount going? It is going through backdoor and coming out as Rs 2,000 notes. The brokers are in the ruling party,” he said, claiming that half the country’s black money was going to BJP’s coffers.

Addressing reporters at his residence, Mr Kejriwal said panic has set in across the country after Mr Modi sought 50 more days from people. “Does this mean that the markets will remain closed for the next 50 days? How can farmers survive? Will people keep standing in queues for 50 days? He is only giving an emotional speech,” he said and asked the PM to join the people queue outside banks to find out whether they were scam-tained..

“The kind of language he used for people standing in lines is deplorable. He said 2G and coal scam tainted are standing in lines,” the Delhi CM said and accused the BJP-led Union government of sheltering the corrupt, counterfeit currency makers and Swiss bank account holders.

Calling Mr Modi’s emotion-laden speech in Goa a “drama”, Mr Kejriwal dared Prime Minister  Modi to jail those with illegal Swiss bank accounts. “You had said you will send those like Robert Vadra and those having Swiss bank accounts to jail. What happened to that? You did not even try to bring back a paisa from Siwss banks. Now you are friends with them. There’s a list of 648 people,” he said.

Earlier, in an address at Panaji, Prime Minister Modi made an impassioned plea to the nation to give him 50 days to fight corruption and black money.