The debate on demonetization is fascinating almost every Indian has a view, in general there seems to be an agreement that black money or economy has to end.
The questions is Narendra Modi winning the battle of perceptions on his attack. Opposition crying hoarse on an issue on which most Indians feel strongly will put them to risk if Modi comes out Successfully. Bad news for the opposition is 2 weeks into the process the lines are reducing. Things seems to be settling in. He has asked for 50 days.
By choosing corruption as an issue he has put himself above all the other pretenders to the throne. Public memory is terribly short, all hardships will be forgotten once things settle. And knowing Modi he will leave no stone unturned to bring down his opponents as insincere on corruption ( he is already on it). They are asking him to explain his actions in the parliament, better not since we have seen him take them to cleaners on a couple of occasions in parliament on Jan dhan and MNREGA.
Opposition is clueless on Modi's agenda and keeps responding to his grand plans. Swach Bharat, Jandhan, Surgical strikes, they are not able to blow holes in his agenda. They should try hard. Folks like Kejriwal instead of saying this is not enough fell to the hate Modi whatever he does campaign and lost the plot. He is no more the champion of anti-corruption.
Rahul, Mamata and Kejri shouting foul on Modi's mother of all initiatives is not helping, the aam admi is not responding to their calls for agitation (needless to say Government has to be swift in taking measures to ease the pain on the street). All said India has been waiting for some one to take this action for long ( justifiably common man believes the obstacle for his personal progress is corruption which is closely associated with black money).
Sure there are difficulties since India is a cash economy people cannot do a lot of things without cash.This will push little more of India to digital payments and transactions. The farmers will suffer, so the kirana wala, the auto driver etc but this well intentioned move will ultimately benefit the poor of the country ( good quality revenue and more tax collections). We have ignored the poor of this country for long, promising them a lot and delivering nothing, this act of the PM should cleanse the stables for building a cleaner India and hopefully a more equitable society.
