RBI Chief Urjit Patel heckled by Congress workers at Kolkata Airport

Mangalore Today News Network

Kolkata, Dec 15 , 2016 :  On a day Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress declared that the Central government’s currency ban had resulted in close to 100 deaths, Urijit Patel, the governor of the Reserve Bank of India or RBI, came within an inch of being manhandled at the Kolkata airport by angry Congress workers.

 

At the airport, Mr Patel was met by angry Congress workers bearing black flags. As the mob threatened to swamp him, Mr Patel’s security stuff managed to rush him in with some difficulty.

Mr Patel was on a visit to Kolkata, where he met Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

During the meeting at government secretariat Nabanna, Ms Banerjee, an angry critic of the currency ban, spoke her mind. Her party had put out a list of demonetization deaths today - putting the figure at 97.

In a letter she gave to Mr Patel, Ms Banerjee called the currency ban - meant to flush out black money and stop terror funding through counterfeiting -- a "cruel misadventure". "The RBI should not be misused or used politically.... We expect you to stand up against this demonetization ...rather than falling silent and remaining opaque," she added.

Courtesy: NDTV