The currency ban has triggered an internal crisis within the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. Many leaders of the party find the decision impractical.
So when party president Amit Shah called a high level meeting of MPs and MLAs to extol the virtues of the ban to the people at large, most of the latter were squeamish.
They were told to put up posters, hoardings and banners in their respective constituencies and make people understand ‘how the currency ban is PM Modi’s historic step’ to combat terrorism and black money. Sources say the legislators knew well that with the country on fire over the issue, they could be barbecued publicly if they went about saying such things!
Days went by, but Shah’s order seemed to have gone unheard, or in any case, ignored, as walls and billboards did not carry any such advertisement.
Shah went ranting and roving. But the party legislators turned the table on him, saying that the currency ban itself made it impossible for them to praise currency ban!
They told him that ninety per cent of the business of posters, banners and hoardings run on hard cash, and the advertising agencies and printers are not accepting old currency.
So the planned countrywide show flopped, leaving the party to make up partly for the fiasco by pasting Agra with ban-extolling posters and banners ahead of the PM’s rally there on November 20.

The flowing of more money on the streets on Agra than water in the Yamuna ahead of Modi’s rally has made opposition parties like Congress and Aam Aadmi Party shout: “Howzatt”!
They say BJP is now caught Leg-Before Wicket… where did it get all that money from?
The party shied behind the excuse that its ‘loyal workers’ brought in all the funds. But sources within the party itself say that it has become practically impossible to make even the die-hard party supporter cough up moolah after the currency ban. Even its loyal voters have given up on the party.
Worse: BJP is now facing the ire of its core constituency, the trading community, a majority of them being Hindus.
Party sources confessed that collecting funds from traders this time was like playing with fire. The latter clearly party leaders that they are now BJP’s ‘new Muslims’, and now, deprived of notes, their votes will go to any party that vanquishes the saffrons.
This daring ‘new Muslim’ stance is now making the Hindu party worried sick.

At a time when the common man is suffering the ‘winter heat’ this year, standing in never-ending queues to exchange banned notes for new ones, and most often going back empty-handed, demoneytisation has changed nothing for the stinking rich people of the country.
A typical big fat Indian wedding took place in Indore, at a resort spread over several acres, on November 10. The daughter of the owner of a famous Hindi newspaper group was getting married like some royalty.
Just 48 hours before that the big currencies had been declared illegal. But this left the tycoon completely comfortable. But how?
Usually reliable sources coo that many bank managers themselves did ‘home delivery’ of the new currency notes.

The BJP president who firmly believes in keeping distance from media and journalist invited a few journalist at 3 pm in BJP head office for tea and samosa. However he was cautious enough and made journalists to keep their mobile outside his office, lest somebody tapes his off the record briefing. Modi had apparently given Shah the responsibility to remove people’s doubts regarding demonetization. One of the journalists raised a piquant question that with this step of PM the core vote bank of BJP seems to be in lurch. Obtrusively, small scale businessmen are quite annoyed with this move. Shah made it clear that government has no intention to bother them about Income tax. The common man will face no trouble as they can deposit up to Rs 2.5 lakh in their accounts and income tax department won’t slap a notice. A journalist raised a question, ‘Will Modi government pace up the income tax raid after Uttar Pradesh election?” Shah replied- “Why don’t you see that without any electoral reform such huge reform took place”. A journalist asked, “But Rahul Gandhi is critcising this move by government”. Shah replied, “Give him an injection of understanding” The informal talk was about to end when a media person asked-“When did you get information of this move of government? Shah replied that he was in flight and came to know after almost half an hour.

On the eve of UP election demonetization seems to be the masterstroke of Modi making BSP and SP apprehensive. A party supremo of UP is often accused for selling tickets. Reliable sources claims that the party supremo is summoning the declared nominees and telling them to take the money back which they had deposited into party’s fund to get ticket. They are being asked to return the same amount in new currency. The nominees were flabbergasted as those who fail to do this will lose their ticket and it will be given to other suitable candidates.

The party supremo of UP who loves riding elephant was in Mumbai last week. It is often said that a famous Bollywood singer recorded 6 promotional songs for this party with some other singers too. From studio to arranger, male or female singers got their fees in cash that too as per their wish. Now all of them are anxious with the huge sum of money in their hands.

AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal has filed a petition in Supreme Court seeking a proper definition of centre state relations in context of Delhi. After this Kejriwal made a panel of lawyers. The moment the file was given to officials, it was sent to the LG. The LG denied petition by saying that only he will decide that who will be the lawyer in panel as LG is running government in Delhi not Kejriwal. Now it’s a strange situation. Kejriwal’s fight is against LG who is not only deciding which lawyer will defend him but also that which lawyer will oppose him.

The currency revolution in the country that landed like a tonne of bricks on Indians had already been mooted sometime ago. Economist Anil Bokil had devised ways to curb widespread black money and curb the flush of fake currency from Pakistan. Sources say that almost 18 months ago, Bokil met Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi with his plan. After a few seconds, Rahul showed him the door, advising him to talk to Mohan Gopal, Director, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Contemporary Studies, and a key Rahul advisor. Bokil was disappointed. After the elections he tried to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A few months ago he indeed got his opportunity. The meeting was supposed to last all of nine minutes. But when Bokil began his presentation, Modi got so animated that two hours flew by before anybody realised. Bokil apparently told Modi that 76 per cent of the unorganised sector runs on cash. Subsequently, Modi made a team of his 10 most reliable persons, consisting of Ajit Doval, Shaktikant Das, RBI Governor and one time Mukesh Ambani man Urjit Patel and others. The entire plan was furtively executed one fine evening, with a message from the PM.

1. Even if it is after a year the son indeed deposited 2.5 lakh rupees in the account of his old mother.
1. ATM: Out of Service
Bank: Out of cash
Public: Out of control.
Modi: Out of Country

A silent advisory has been sent by the American Embassy to India’s foreign ministry, cautioning about GOP presidency nominee Donald Trump. Several fringe organisations of RSS adore Trump as they like his anti-Muslim tone. Many Hindutva organisations associated with RSS in support of Trump-organised meetings in America. The World Hindu Conference was organised in New Jersey. Interestingly, several film celebrities took part in the conference. The Khakis believe it is only Trump who can challenge Muslim extremism.
It is often said that a few affluent Indians are donating to Trump’s poll chest. Hillary got to know of it and informed about the Embassy. According to sources, the Embassy made it clear in its advisory that India will certainly not benefit from helping sTrump. This is when Vijay Jolly of BJP in Delhi was organising ‘Hindus for Trump’. But the BJP chief rapped him over his knuckls, saying – ‘we are not supposed to interfere in other countries’ election we should have cordial relation with every government’.