New Delhi: Congress on Tuesday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi after his 97-year-old mother Hiraba visited a bank at her village in Gujarat to replace now-defunct banknotes with the new high currency ones, saying “no good son” would ever want this.
“I am very sad. No good son ever wants that his 97-year-old mother to (face such a situation) and they boast of a 56-inch chest,” party spokesman Kapil Sibal told mediapersons here on Tuesday.
Congress leader Rashid Alvi, speaking at a separate event, accused Mr Modi of not following “putra dharma” (duties of a son).
“If a son cannot look after his own mother, how can one expects him to look after the people of the country?” he asked. Accompanied by relatives, Hiraba, who was in a wheelchair, came to a branch of Oriental Bank of Commerce at Raisan village on the outskirts of Gandhinagar on Tuesday morning and received notes worth '4,500 exchanged.
Mr Modi had on November 8 announced scrapping of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes to curb the black money menace.
After the announcement, people have been queuing up at banks across the country to get their old high denomination notes exchanged for the new notes.
Many opposition parties have come out in open criticism of the Centre’s move and have also accused it of ‘leaking the information to the RBI and select corporate bigwigs.
