Congress leader and MP Kapil Sibal levelled serious charges against the Narendra Modi government here on Tuesday and showed an alleged sting operation to prove that certain State agencies were used by the BJP to make demonetisation work. The BJP has termed the revelations as fake and said it will take legal action against the Congress.

Talking to reporters after showing certain parts of the sting operation, Sibal said that post-demonetisation, a team of government officials, drawn from different departments, was engaged in the exchange of old notes for the new.

He said Modi started his tenure by fooling the people. “He ends his five-year term by traumatising us. Demonetisation was a surgical strike on the poor. It robbed them of their earnings. But it provided an opportunity for the rich to convert their unaccounted cash by manipulating the banking system. It is the biggest scam in the history of India. Who benefitted from this scam, needs to be investigated,” he said and added that the sting operation gave a glimpse of the nature of the scam.

He claimed the involvement of the BJP, along with bankers, government and its officials, including those who enforce the law. “If this is true, and the treasury can be looted in this fashion, then we all need to be alert to the dangers that lie ahead. The forces, if involved in such an enterprise, are not only anti-national but have committed treason,” he added.

He said the clips identify individuals who can easily be investigated and confronted. “Can we expect partisan agencies, who serve the bidding of the government, to act? When the agencies align themselves with the government in power, democracy is in jeopardy. We must save our democracy at any cost,” he added.

Responding to the charges, Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said Sibal has made false allegations against the BJP and its President Amit Shah and the BJP will take legal action.

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