Chennai: CPI’s national executive member Binoy Vishwam has filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of the introduction of the new Rs 2000/- and Rs 500/- notes with Devanagari script in its design.
In a statement here, CPI said that the usage of Devanagari script is in contravention of Article 343(1) of the Constitution of India. “A bank note is the symbol of a nation's economy and there were debates in the Constituent Assembly after which it was decided that the numerals used are to be the international form of numerals and hence Article 343(1) is worded the way it is currently worded,” it said.
“The Rs 2000 and Rs. 500 notes have so many shortcomings like the same losing colour if exposed to water and the same being similar to the currencies of many countries. There are spelling mistakes also seen in the new '2000 currency for example Urdu wording are wrongly printed,” CPI said, adding that the proviso to Article 343 provides that a legislation is required to change the position as regards official languages. The petition was expected to be heard along with writ petitions filed against the demonetisation which are all to be heard on 25th of this month.
