India's parliament ended its latest session Friday with barely any debate on a currency ban that has caused nation-wide chaos, leading opposition parties to claim their democratic rights had been "trampled". Ruling and opposition politicians have traded bitter accusations of responsibility for the failure of parliament to function for almost all of the winter session.
It opened on November 16, a week after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a shock decision to withdraw all high-value notes from circulation - a move aimed at tackling corruption that is widely expected to hit economic growth. In a memorandum to the president, the Congress and several other opposition parties said they were "extremely pained by this trampling of our democratic rights" and warned the currency move could bring "economic disaster".
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