'Modi can't solve people's misery by oratory skills'

JD(S) national president H D Deve Gowda said on Wednesday that the Centre’s failure to implement demonetisation scheme properly has caused a lot of inconvenience to people. The Reserve Bank of India has issued more than 60 circulars modifying rules related to the scheme repeatedly. People are struggling to withdraw their own money from banks even 50 days after the scheme was announced. This shows that the government has failed to implement the scheme, he told reporters.

Gowda said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a good orator. But he cannot solve misery of people by his oratory skills. “I had initially welcomed the scheme. But it has now been proved that there was no planning on the part of the government for implementation...I am disappointed with his (Modi) December 31 address to the nation,” he said.

Gowda charged the Centre with misusing the CBI and suggested TMC leader Mamata Banerjee to take legal recourse over the arrest of her party MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay by the federal investigative agency.