Screen shot of Yes Prime Minister in which Sir Humphrey Appleby demonstrates the use of leading questions to skew an opinion survey.Fidel Castro is dead but a leader determined to unleash a cultural revolution has risen in democratic India. On one dramatic night, an elected Prime Minister announces his decision to purge India of financial corruption and people the nation with honest citizens. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in one fell swoop, killed 86 per cent of the currency notes in circulation as the legal tender. Thus began the great run on the banks to exchange the old notes with the new ones that remain scarce even after a month. The nation is reeling under the impact of a cash crunch rare in the history of currencies.
The demonetisation causes daily chaos in front of banks. More than 80 people either collapsed in the long queues or committed suicide when not able to feed the family. For a nation that subsists largely on cash transactions, the decision has brought untold misery to the common man. For a nation that subsists largely on cash transactions, the decision has brought untold misery to the common man.
The Government leaders called it as the Prime Minister’s “surgical strike” against black (unaccounted) money. A judge called it “carpet bombing” because suddenly 86 per cent of the currency in circulation was withdrawn. The political opposition doubted the intentions of the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister dubbed his critics hoarders of black money.
