BJP today mocked Rahul Gandhi's visit to a bank here for exchanging currency notes as a "photo opportunity" and said it only underlined the demonetisation move's success as "privileged dynasties" will now have to queue up and follow the law.
Taking a swipe at the Congress Vice President, Union minister Prakash Javadekar said had he queued up in the Congress party and allowed the fittest to rule, then his party would have been better off.
"Those born into dynasties lived under the impression that they were born to rule. They never stood in a queue. Succession to positions of power was a birth right. Rahul Gandhi never stood in a queue to become the leader of his party.
"He superseded men of greater experience and competence merely because dynasties do not queue up. That is the feudal order. Only if he had queued up within the Congress party and the fittest had survived, the party would have been better off," he said in a statement.
Attacking Gandhi over his visit to the bank, Javadekar said he wanted to create a scene by standing in a queue.
"He thought it was a great photo opportunity. He visited the bank perhaps for the first time. The irony is that, on the contrary, his photo opportunity turned out to be a success of PM (Narendra) Modi's scheme. Even those in privileged dynasties will now have to queue up and face the law. The age of privileges for a few is over now," he said.
Modi's decision to replace high denomination currency in order to get rid of black money and corruption will benefit the honesty people, he said, adding those with unexplained cash are in trouble.
Gandhi took many by surprise when he visited SBI's Parliament Street branch to exchange demonetised currency notes with new ones, and hit out at Modi saying the Prime Minister would not understand the problems people were facing due to the Centre's move.
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Taking a apparent dig at Modi, Gandhi satirised a song from movie Namak Halaal, saying "Aapka toh lagta hai bas yahi sapna, ram ram japna garibo kaa maal apna (It seems your only dream is to take away money from poor while chanting the name of Ram)".
Hitting out at Modi, he said the Prime Pinister "does not want to respond" to the charge of taking kickbacks from corporate groups.
The Congress vice president also directed his party leaders and workers to go to every nook and corner of the country and apprise the people of how the "RSS and BJP are damaging the country", spreading "hatred and fear" through initiatives like demonetisation.
He also asked them to spread the word how the Modi government is "snatching the money from the poor and damaging the future of the country".
