Modi government's split personality

No one believes any longer that demonetisation achieved the objectives set out by the PM Modi when he announced it

As befits an ageing journalist, I usually have an explanation for everything. But one aspect of the Modi government has completely flummoxed me.
 
This is that while it conducts its politics with extreme cleverness, in economic policy it shows extraordinary clumsiness.
 
We all know about demonetisation and its consequences. No one believes any longer that it achieved the objectives set out by the prime minister when he announced it.
 
We also know about the utterly ham-handed way in which the GST has been implemented. It’s amazing how this fiasco was allowed to happen by the finance ministry.