Demonetisation: Rahul Gandhi’s sher-o-shayari to highlight ‘tears’ of commoners

On the first anniversary of demonetisation on Wednesday, Rahul Gandhi tweeted to criticise the Narendra Modi government.

New Delhi, Nov 8: Continuing with his attack on the Narendra Modi government over demonetisation, on Wednesday--the first anniversary of note ban-- Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi took the help of a Hindi couplet to highlight the "aasu" (tears) of commoners.

Rahul's tweet, "Ek aasu bhi hukumat ke liye khatra hain; tumne dekha nahi aakho ka samandar hona," can be loosely translated into English as, "A drop of cry can be a signal of danger for the government; you have not seen an eye transforming into a sea."

The tweet, a couplet by famous Urdu poet Munawwar Rana, was a kind of a threat to the Prime Minister and his team that the tears of commoners could one day prove fatal for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government.

The tweet is accompanied by a picture of an old man standing in a bank queue during the peak of demonetisation and crying for help to get some cash. In fact, the picture went viral few days after the announcement of note ban by PM Modi on November 8 last year. The old man became a symbol of trouble faced by commoners to get some cash from banks and ATMs after demonetisation.

The man in the picture is 80-year-old retired army man Nand Lal. However, recently in an interview to The Economic Times, Lal said that he cried out of frustration after he waited long in a bank queue to get some cash to run his household.

However, he clarified that he was happy with demonetisation and he would do whatever the Modi government ask him to do.

"Demonetisation is a tragedy. We stand with millions of honest Indians, whose lives & livelihoods were destroyed by PM's thoughtless act," Rahul also tweeted.

"How the "Master's Strokes" have hurt India and given our economy a stroke. Op-ed @FT," Rahul tweeted about the opinion piece he wrote for Financial Times.

On the occasion of first anniversary of demonetisation on Wednesday, the Centre celebrated the day as an "anti-black money day". The Opposition, as a mark of protest, observed the day as a "black day".

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