Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that demonetisation was a "magical" scheme by Prime Minister Narendra Modi that turned all the black money into white. Addressing the "Adivasi Adhikar Sabha" (Meeting for tribal rights) in this Gujarat district, he said that while the common man stood in long bank queues for days, the rich got their old currency exchanged through the backdoor. "There is another magic by Modiji and it is demonetisation. You all stood in bank queues, but did you see any suited-booted gentleman standing in the queue? You did not, and I will tell you why," Gandhi said. "It is because all the suited-booted guys entered the banks from the back door, sat in air-conditioned rooms and got their lakhs and crores exchanged. All the thieves thus got their black money converted into white through magic," he said.

Rahul Gandhi