The decision to keep the demonetisation plan a secret is getting a pat on the back. But apart from select officials in the Prime Minister’s Office, the finance ministry and the Reserve Bank of India, would likely have been so many people at the currency printing press. Was everybody surprised by the move? Was the president of the party in power unaware?
The Supreme Court should constitute a special investigation team to probe the angle of disproportionate conversions of high denomination notes into low-denomination ones.
T R Ramaswami, Mumbai
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