Congress: Modi must explain to people reason for cash crunch

New Delhi, April 18: The Congress on Wednesday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government must explain to the nation the cash shortage in ATMs across the country.

It said demonetisation was the only original idea of PM Modi and the result of it was that even after 18 months, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was yet to finish the counting of demonetised notes that came back into the system.

"The new notes are not available. People are paranoid and insecure about their money. They do not know the fate of their hard-earned money which they deposited in the banks," said Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera.

He said that every hour the government and its mouthpieces came up with new excuses, new reasons and new theories.

"According to a recent data, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is the richest party. The only project that got completed in the past four years is party's seven-storey headquarters," said Khera.