"Demonetisation is a good step. Due to demonetisation, terrorism will get a hit," Patekar told reporters.
"As common people, we should tolerate the inconvenience for 10, 15 and 25 days, and it is a very minor difficulty caused for us (on account of demonetization), which is minor in terms of that of the nation (is going through due to parallel economy of black money and fake currency)", he added.
Calling the initiative a big blow to fake currency being printed and send by Pakistan into the country, the actor said, "The money (fake) which used to be printed (in Pakistan) and comes from across the border that constituted 30 percent of fake notes in our currency. We now got rid of it.
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