New Delhi: Opposition parties on Tuesday said November 8 - the day Prime Minister Modi had announced his "ill-conceived" decision to spike Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes a year ago, will be observed as Black Day.
The decision to mark November 8 as the black day was taken at a coordination meeting on Monday.
Talking to reporters in New Delhi leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad said the opposition parties have worked out a joint strategy and would register their protest against the November 8, 2016, demonetisation decision.
"Demonetisation was an ill-conceived and hasty decision of the government. It is unprecedented, perhaps in the entire world, that a government had to alter its policy 135 times within a month," Azad said.
Janata Dal (JD-U) leader Sharad Yadav, Communist Party of India (CPI) MP D. Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi, BSP's Satish Mishra and Trinamool Congress' Derek O'Brien attended the meeting held in New Delhi to discuss how the Nov 8 protest will unfold across the country.
In a sudden and surprising decision on November Prime Minister Narendra Modi appeared on television screen to announce that Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes will no longer be valid from midnight.
The decision had shocked the entire nation. In the aftermath, more than 100 people lost life while standing outside banks and for related reasons.
Interestingly, Prime Minister Modi claimed that his much criticised decision was aimed at curbing black money. His claim however proved wrong when the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in its latest disclosure said more than 99% of the banned notes in circulation were deposited in banks.
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