Chidambaram describes demonetisation as the greatest lie

New Delhi: Former Finance Minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Sunday termed demonetisation as the 'greatest lie' and blamed the Centre's move for destroying jobs.

The Congress leader also accused the Centre of pushing people into poverty by implementing a flawed Goods and Services Tax (GST).

"There cannot be a greater lie than demonetisation," Chidambaram said after presenting the party's economic policy at the Congress plenary here.

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He slammed the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for not telling the nation the total amount of demonetised currency it received back.

"Demonetisation was a big lie. The RBI is still counting and won't tell us how much money has come back," he said.