Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh took shots at the Narendra Modi government on Tuesday, 2 March, over rising unemployment in the country, attributing it to the Centre’s 2016

demonetisation decision. Dr Singh said, “Unemployment is high and the informal sector is in shambles, a crisis precipitated by the ill-considered demonetisation decision taken in 2016,"

as per PTI. Dr Singh was speaking at the inauguration of a virtual summit organised by the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Development Studies – a Congress ideology aligned, economic think tank

in Kerala. A framework to develop Kerala, known as the Vision Document was launched on Tuesday at the summit, added the report. This comes ahead of the upcoming state Assembly polls to be