India's new CEA supported note ban, called it a 'refreshing change'
India's new Chief Economic Adviser Krishnamurthy Subramanian had supported demonetisation, describing it as a "refreshing change". "In a rare instance, the government has taken an action that resonates well with the sentiment among common, law-abiding citizens," he wrote in a column in November 2016. He said note ban "may be revolutionary in the annals of the country's fight against corruption".