Picking on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks that demonetisation was a "bitter" medicine to get rid of black money, Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Wednesday said it destroyed the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) and now the government wanted RBI to revive the sector.

The former Finance Minister also took strong exception to remarks reported in the media of an unnamed government functionary who had said that government had acquired primacy on policy matters vis-a-vis the Reserve Bank of India.