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Verdict on demonetisation cannot be interpreted as upholding the move: CPI(M)

  •   Mon, Jan 02 2023 04:18:23 PM

New Delhi, Jan 2 (IANS): Reacting to the Supreme Court verdict on demonetisation, the CPI(M) said on Monday that the verdict of the five-member Constitution bench cannot be interpreted as 'upholding' this move.

"In the majority judgment, the Supreme Court has exclusively dealt with the legal right of the Central government to take such a decision and that it does not violate Section 26(2) of RBI Act 1934. The dissenting opinion of one of the honourable judges maintained that this Section of the RBI Act says that the RBI must recommend to the government to initiate demonetisation.

"In this case the decision was taken by the Central government which sought the opinion of the RBI. Hence, the approval of Parliament should have been taken before this decision was executed," said the Politburo of the CPI(M) in a statement.

The majority judgement noted that demonetisation had "reasonable nexus" with the objectives it sought to achieve and that it is "not relevant whether the objective was achieved or not," the party said.

The party said that this majority verdict while upholding the government's legal right to take such a decision says nothing about the impact of such a decision. Demonetisation resulted in the destruction of India's informal economy that employs crores of people. It paralysed the small-scale industrial sector, the MSMEs, destroying crores of livelihoods. Reports noted that in one month since the decision in 2016, 82 people lost their lives, it added.

"Further, none of the objectives justifying this disastrous decision of unearthing black money and bringing this back from foreign banks; ending counterfeit currency; ending terror funding, corruption and reducing cash flows in the economy have been achieved. On the contrary, according to RBI, currency with the public has gone up from Rs 17.7 lakh crore, on the eve of demonetisation to Rs 30.88 lakh crore now, i.e., an increase of 71.84 per cent," said the CPI(M).

The CPI(M) said that the Supreme Court's majority judgement merely upholds the right of the government to take such a decision and in no way endorses the consequences of such a decision.

 

 
  

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  • Vinod Kumar, Mangalore

    Mon, Jan 02 2023

    For court to uphold the demonitisation move first was this move discussed, debated and approved from the parliament????????…..Second, why no disclosure of total amount of Black and counterfeit money seized now in govt possession to prove and need for demonitisation????. Third why still black money, counterfeit monies are in higher circulation than before and terror finding hasn’t stooped as promised, in fact terrorists had new bank notes before citizen could have them. The main consequence of this badly designed and self serving demonitisation has adversely hit the economy and businesses with no chance of reversing it.

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