"Comparing his opponents with Pakistan is indecent and condemnable... All this goes on to show his frustration," Mayawati said in a statement here.
"Saying that some leaders are standing alongside with the dishonest is wrong and highly irresponsible.... These leaders are not standing with the dishonest but with crores of poor people who are facing immense hardship because of note ban decision," she said.
The Prime Minister, who was on his first tour of his Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency after Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes were demonetised on November 8, was speaking at a function organised inside the Banaras Hindu University campus.
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