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Ghulam Nabi Takes on FM on Note Ban, Jaitley Slams Opposition

Arun Jaitley blamed the Opposition for disrupting Parliament on a daily basis rather than resuming the discussion.

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Leader of the Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday said 84 persons have died in hardships caused due to the demonetisation issue in the last one month.

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Azad said the list includes 40 persons in 15 states dying standing in queues in front of banks and ATMs in the last one month and five bank employees in four states losing their lives due to stress. People have committed suicide as they could not arrange for currency for their daughters' wedding, he said.

As people scrambled to lay their hands on valid currency, large scale job losses have been reported as a fallout of demonetisation, the senior Congress leader said.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley blamed the Opposition for using the tactics of disruption on a daily basis rather than resuming the discussion started on the first day of the winter session on November 16 and which is yet to conclude.

The government, he said, had not wasted even a minute to agree to a debate on the issue. It also agreed to the rule under which the debate is to be conducted as well as to the demand that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will participate in it, Jaitley said.

But instead of participating and concluding the debate, the Opposition has been using the Zero Hour to raise the issue for "getting footage on TV rather than listening to substantive facts on the issue. If the Opposition has the guts, the debate should resume," the Leader of the House said.

Jaitley also raised a point of order saying how can the Chair allow an issue on which substantial portion of debate has happened, to be raised during Zero Hour again. (Inputs: PTI)

Video Editor: Ashutosh Bhardwaj

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