Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma, taking on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for making a comment on former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, asked him to to stop "insulting" former heads of government.
He also noted that "she would not have said anything to her ministers in presence of any other person".
"Stop insulting former Prime Ministers. Change the narrative and mindset. From Jawaharlal Nehru to Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Manmohan Singh to Indira Gandhi, it is a long list.
"When you insult them, you do not insult Indira and Nehru, you also insult Lal Bahadur Shastri and Morarji Desai who demonetised high-value currency in 1978," said Sharma at the 89th AGM of industry chamber Ficci.
Modi on Friday said that demonetisation should have been done in 1971 when Indira Gandhi was heading the government, referring to former bureaucrat Madhav Godbole's book in which he has recorded how then Finance Minister Y.B. Chavan had recommended demonetisation to curb ill-gotten and hidden wealth.
He had said Gandhi turned down the proposal, telling Chavan whether he expected the Congress to never contest another election. "In 1971, more than 45 years back, I was 17 years, Modjiji was 19 or 20 years of age. It is interesting to know that he had this knowledge what Indira Gandhi had said during that time.
