Note ban's failure won't hurt PM Modi, he's already changed the narrative

Modi has learnt never to engage with his opponents and a hapless Opposition is trying to keep up

APCO Worldwide, a transnational public relations company, had their most apt pupil in then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi. The one thing Modi learnt was never to engage with his opponents on issues they want to talk about. He sets the agenda and a hapless opposition and media try to keep up. Demonetisation was a Modi-made disaster. Yet the disaster only served to propel Modi to greater electoral heights, and today, as he towers over a clueless opposition, even the return of 99% of the extinguished notes does not change the narrative of one man’s fight against corruption.

Modi had