Note ban timeline: How Modi govt juggled and struggled with justifications

The PM and his men have been clutching at straws the past one year to explain why the note ban was imposed on the citizenry

Narendra Modi has always been a prime minister in a hurry. In his zeal to fulfil his promise of transforming the Indian economy, he launched a slew of schemes such as Make in India, Start-up India and Jan Dhan, all within the very first year of coming to power. Even when he made what is possibly the biggest and most impactful economic announcement in independent India's history on November 8, 2016, he left very little space for the citizenry to respond. The PM's declaration that from the midnight of that day, Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes would no