Rahul calls demonetisation a scam

"We feel that this decision is a scam. The PM had informed his close friends about this before the announcement," Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi told reporters in New Delhi today. With a united opposition protesting and almost 200 MPs from various parties participating in the discussion, the Prime Minister should explain in Parliament why he took such a decision and why he "leaked" the decision to his industrialist friends and BJP leaders, he said. “What PM Modi has done is biggest impromptu financial experiment, he didn’t discuss this with anyone. This is not Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s decision but the Prime Minister’s,” he said. Rahul demanded a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into allegations that the BJP had informed its friends beforehand on the banning of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes, announced by Modi in a televised address on November 8.