The UP politician's guide to beating demonetisation

Politicians who were hoarding black money found several loopholes to get around demonetisation

“In the beginning, there were rumours everyday that so and so doctor or businessmen got a heart attack because they were caught with black money. But later, it would be confirmed that no such thing had happened and nobody was caught”, said 45-year-old Ompal Kashyap, a resident of a village in the Mainpuri district of Uttar Pradesh. A group of respondents outside Kheragarh of Fatehabad, a town near Agra said, “Jitne bade kale karobari the, kisi ke chehre pe shikan tak nahin aayi, sari dikkat aam addmi aur kisan ko hui” (The real culprits who had black money were not