Demonetisation a dud

Sushma Swaraj and her fellow party leaders are oblivious to the sufferings of the public

Demonetisation was and is not a solution to check the menace of black money. The hasty and unplanned decision to demonetise the high denomination notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000, comprising 86 per cent of the total currency in circulation on November 8, 2016, by PM Narendra Modi was outrageous, and not courageous as claimed by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in her address to the United Nations General Assembly. Probably, Swaraj and her fellow party leaders are oblivious to the sufferings of the public waiting for hours in queue for the exchange of notes including the untimely deaths