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Nov 8, 2016: Modi demonetisation speech - “to get a grip on corruption and black money”
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PM Narendra Modi uttered the phrase “black money” 18 times in this speech on Nov 8, 2016. (3/n)

“Demonetisation was to make India a cashless economy“: PM During #MaanKiBaat on Nov 27, 2017
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By November 27, he used the phrase "digital/cashless" thrice as much as "black money" with no mention of "fake currency". (5/n)

There was zero mention of "digital/cashless" in the initial November 8 speech. (6/n)

#demonetisation

Nov 27, 2016: PM linked demonetisation to corruption of the privileged
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Dec 7,2016: “Demonetisation had been carried out to force Indians to put domestic savings lying idle at home”

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Dec 29, 2016: Money held by terrorists, Maoists and human traffickers has been neutralized: PM
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In the same interview, PM linked election reforms to demonetisation for the first time.
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Crippling impact of demonetisation on human trafficking and narcotics: PM on December 29, 2016
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Purpose of demonetisation is served as it had led to “larger and cleaner GDP”: Jaitley on Feb 13, 2017 indianexpress.com/article/india/… (12/n)

Informal economy is being integrated into the formal one; size of economy increasing: Jaitley on March 23 business-standard.com/article/econom… (13/n)

Objectives of demonetisation met to large extent: Nirmala Sitharaman on April 9
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Demonetisation will reduce cash in system, help achieve clean political funding: @ArunJaitley on July 23
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Demonetisation starved maoists and separatists: Arun Jaitley on Aug 21, 2017 ecoti.in/TLTTta (16/n)

Objective of demonetisation was to expand tax base, fight black money: Jaitley on Aug 31
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My story: Templated tweets, trolls deployed to proclaim ‘success’ of #demonetisation on social media bit.ly/2espUxM via @thewire_in

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So this was *real* objective behind #demonetization!

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#RajasthanPatrika published my story on #DemonetisationSuccess in their print edition today. 😊🙏goo.gl/dQA79a

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Who will take responsibility for the structural slowing down of India’s economy, poor employment generation and agriculture distress?

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No information on how much black money removed by #demonetisation: RBI to parliamentary panel bit.ly/2eDWLzI via @thewire_in