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Currency ban: Left leader Sitaram Yechury slams Modi

| | Nov 16, 2016, at 10:50 pm
New Delhi, Nov 16 (IBNS): Left leader Sitaram Yechury on Wednesday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and used a meme being shared on social media to criticise the currency ban move by the Centre.

Speaking in the Parliament on the issue of  currency note ban, the Left leader said: "In the French revolution, they said if you don't have bread, eat cake. Now we have Modi Antoinette."

He further said: "If you don't have paper, pay by plastic."
 

The Winter Session of the Parliment started from Wednesday.

The currency ban issue triggered a storm the Parliament.

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