What right have you, Mr Modi, to make the diligent, honest small person feel so inhuman, helpless?

PM Narendra Modi’s cashless economy fails to consider one critical situation: you can draw from the bank, or from the ATM (at whatever limits) only if you manage to get that money into the bank in the first place. When you are small business owner, and you have about 40-45 percent of your business in cash, there will be no sales, because the customers will not pick up their orders and the inventory piles up. Transactions come to a stop. Money does not arrive in banks.

You have intentionally and effectively stooped a process that feeds mouths, feeds families, keeps them warm in the winter and protects them from the ills of society. You have dehumanized them, made them feel small and helpless.

However much the political need, there has to be a place where you draw the line while the nation suffers. There is a point where you let go of your arrogance, your ego, your self-publicity. At what point does a leader of a nation stop thinking about himself and start thinking of the people that he and his party was elected to govern?

Mr Narendra Modi seems to have forgotten that this is a country of poor people. This is not a country of baniyas, all with bagfuls of black money. This is a country of mainly small aspirations, small dreams. But, for god’s sake, they are real aspirations, real dreams. Do not deride the people of the country, do not make them feel helpless and foolish. You have no right to.

You have forgotten the small person, the person who has diligently, with hard work, developed a small firm that produces excellent quality goods and is serving the country with his or her diligence that he or she is proud of. In one foolish, arrogant move, you have deprived him/her of her aspirations, his/her dreams. And you talk about 50 days to solve his/her problems?

What right have you, Mr Modi, to deprive people of what he or she has so painstakingly developed, nurtured, saved?

What will make you less arrogant, less self seeking? When will we ever stop hearing you boast of Achche Din? I am sure you don’t have it in you to apologize. You never will. At least accept that you had made a mistake. That you thought you were the statesman, economist, physicist and psychologist all rolled into one.

You aren’t around to feed small, starving mouths today Mr Modi. You were never around. We don’t expect that from you.

At least, from now, leave us alone. Let us not be forced to hear your Man ki Baat. We are not interested.