Fraudsters won't take long to counterfeit Rs 2,000 note: Aiyar

Congress Leader Mani Shankar Aiyar today said the demonetisation move of Narendra Modi government might curb terrorism and cross-border militancy in Jammu and Kashmir, but it will not take very long for fraudsters to print a counterfeit Rs 2,000 note.
"It (The demonetisation) might curb militancy, but I don't think it will take them (fraudsters) very long to come out with a counterfeit Rs 2,000 note," he told reporters on the sidelines of an event organised to discuss "Kashmir Flashpoint - 4 point formula" here.
To a query, Aiyar said people who did not even know about black money were being troubled on a scale never before.

"Please go to the queues that are three km-long and ask them what they think about it. People who don't even know what is black money are being troubled on a scale on which they never have been troubled before.
I don't see any Ambani, Adani or any big bureaucrats or any big politician standing in any of these queues," he said.
On Modi threatening to open the files in a rally at Ghazipur, Aiyar said he welcom the Prime Minister to do so, but also reminded his rhetoric of opening the files of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, which has not revealed anything so far.

"He (Modi) is welcome to do. Who is stopping him? And also we remember him saying he will reopen all the files on Netaji Subash Chandra Bose. What has come out of the file he has opened. (Did) that change anything?" he questioned.

Modi earlier in Ghazipur announced that on the occasion of Nehru's birth anniversary, as a tribute, he will open those files that no one has bothered about since the death of the former primeminister.
On how he would see Indo-Pak relations following the victory of Donald Trump in the US elections, Aiyar said the Indian government needs to talk to the President-Elect.

"We have to talk to Donald Trump and he is not yet the president and by the time he becomes the president and by the time he will be president he will be briefed about various things he doesn't know about and we will see then," he said.
Aiyar further said India should talk to Pakistan to resolve Kashmir problem.
"Instead of blaming Pakistan or India, the way forward is hold talks with Pakistan. The reason I am stressing (on) India is that Pakistan keeps saying they are ready to talk to us," he said.