Two weeks after announcing the demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked the people of the country to give their feedback on the move via a survey on the Narendra Modi mobile application.
But, filled with leading questions and loaded answers, the survey is far from a fair assessment of the mood of the public after a policy move which has significantly disrupted daily life.
Especially so, when you consider the minuscule percentage of people who have access to the application (approximately one million people).
If the objective of the survey was to find out whether or not the people of India are actually in favour of his move, as his government claims, and to receive their feedback, here are some vital questions that PM Narendra Modi should have asked instead.
A quick glance at the official app’s questions reveals the several biases that plague the survey: while some questions are phrased to induce a positive opinion of the ban, other questions simply have no option to disagree with the statement at hand.
It is then no surprise that the results PM Modi tweeted out a day after the survey went live, looked wildly encouraging of the currency ban and was flashed on all major television news channels, as well.
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