I clearly remember it was Surgery ad day night when he declared this historic decision. We couldn’t even pay for our dinner that day to the ‘Eden roof’ guy. My seniors tried withdrawing few money but the efforts went in vain.
Then the struggle started. Queuing up in front of banks, post offices for long hours. Honestly speaking I didn’t have to go through much pain but yes I’ve seen people struggling badly.
Struggling for waiting in queue for so long time, struggling for not being able to carry out their regular job, struggling for gathering enough money for livelihood.
And then another series of event started… Treachery… Corruption… Bribery and what not. RBI rules became more unpredictable than the Duckworth-Lewis method. And at the end, the encounter which was supposed to be the largest campaign against black money turned out to be the greatest failure of recent times.
The worst thing was yet to come though. RBI refused to accept the currencies after 1st January this year, going against their own rulebook all over again and yet again common people had to pay the price, who found out few of these currencies later on. Unfortunately even after that, these currencies were ‘unofficially’ deposited by various other means by many agencies and of course with huge amount of bribery (please don’t sue me in court for that because I don’t have the evidences but this is an open secret).
Whatever be the intention, Demonitisation turned out to be ‘Demon’itisation at least to me, where only the corrupt opportunistic Demons made huge profits and the innocents only had to face harassments and injustice.
8th of November would always be a ‘black day’ in Indian economy for me…
