sangeeta mehra

Ten years ago tonight, India was told: black money ends now. We were told: Black money sits in cash. Cancel the cash, and the black money dies. 🔔Then the RBI counted. 99.3% of the cancelled notes came back. Either India had almost no black money in cash, or the plan gave it a free, legal way to launder itself. Neither answer reflects well on the government. And the other promises? 🚫Terror funding: Ended? We wish. Otherwise, the Pulwama and Pahalgam attacks, or the Red Fort blast, would never have happened. 🚫Fake notes: Gone? Not quite. In 2025–26, over 1.4 lakh counterfeit new ₹500 notes were detected. 🚫Corruption: Rooted out? Ask anyone who has ever tried to get a file moving. 🚫The ₹2,000 note was introduced to fix the problem, only to be quietly withdrawn in 2023. 🚫And the cash we were told to give up? It has grown from ₹13 lakh crore in 2017 to over ₹41 lakh crore today. All of this came at a price: endless queues, lost jobs, shuttered small businesses and lives lost. 🔔In 2016, Narendra Modi asked for 50 days. He said that if any serious flaw in his decision came to light after 30 December, people could take him to any “chauraha” and punish him as they saw fit. 🚫It has been ten years. That is roughly 73 times the time he asked for. The flaws are on record. The data is public. We are still waiting for an accounting, or even an acknowledgement. Modi ji, in India there is rule of law. Justice is not yet meted out on Chaurahas. Perhaps you could accept @RahulGandhi Ji’s challenge and debate him at the same “chauraha”. You don't dare debate foreign relations. At least grow the spine to debate demonetisation. Such cowardice doesn't suit a PM with a 56-inch chest.