One should not be naïve enough to believe that the BJP government did have a plan of action in place, in advance to implement the demonetisation of Rs 1000 and Rs 500 notes. The step was taken in haste and the later decisions were only put in place piecemeal and no cohesive plan of action to manage the fallout had been thought of in advance. The enormity of the trouble the common man would be subject to was to such an extent that there was absolutely lack of inabililty by the government to foresee what would be the after effects.
Later Modi himself and his BJP government colleagues tried to find ways and means to pacify the people on whom a gross, badly done and sudden demonetisation had been thrust upon and the various small little decisions to assuage fears and cool tempers were being just a case of alibis that did not go well with the people who had been badly affected and who should not forgive Modi for his having played with the sensitivities of the most affected people and deserves the strongest form of condemnation.
It would not be wrong to say that law abiding citizens of India have already endured great hardships that may not even have the desired effect on curbing black money. Most of the black money from India is stashed in safe havens abroad and this was distinctly a case of wanton lack of prescience of what was to follow, badly executed. All those affected the most should never forgive Modi for his dereliction of duty towards the common man and subjecting them to monumental hardships.
Does Modi think that the hardworking people of India who have not been able to enjoy the fruits of their hard earned money will forget and absolve him of wrong doing in the guise of trying to control black money? Without doubt, his cohorts and cronies have been forewarned and have got away with his cruel joke on the hard working people of India. The very fact that Modi could not face Parliament to justify his entire ill-intentioned demonetisation, casts serious aspersions on his integrity and sincerity for which the people of India should strongly condemn him.
The failed exercise has made Modi just another rhetorical orator who can only speak but is incapable of implementing but on the contrary shifts the burden on to the others.. Lalit Modi and Vijay Mallya have for the moment got away with gross financial irregularities, but the hard working people of India had to pay the price for no fault of their own.
