India Suffers Long ques in a bid to eradicate corruption

Following Trumps win India's Government decided to wipe out black money. The move as led to disturbing complaint and long queues as they transition to the new system.  Meanwhile their Prime Minister pays visit to Japan's President 

Hundreds of thousands of people have queued for hours outside banks after the bank notes - which account for more than 80 per cent of the currency in circulation - were abolished.

The government scrapped the notes in a bid to uncover billions of dollars in undeclared wealth.

Tempers frayed across the country, and critics claimed the wealthy have found new ways to get around the rules.

Much of the cash-driven economy has been brought to a halt following the move.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal - a rival of Prime Minister Narendra Modi - said: 'There's chaos everywhere.'

Nearly half of India's 202,000 ATMs were shut on Friday and those that operated quickly ran out of the new notes as scores of people descended upon them. 

Customers argued and banged the glass doors at a Standard Chartered branch in southern Delhi after security guards blocked the entrance, saying there were too many people inside already.

Others turned on Modi, criticising his ongoing visit to Japan while ordinary people suffered at home.

'He is taking bullet train rides in Japan and here you have old people knocking on bank doors for cash,' said Prabhat Kumar, a college student who said he had spent six hours in the queue. 'He has made a terrible mistake.'

Modi said he would pursue the fight against corruption and tax dodgers even if it meant scanning decades-old records.

'If unaccounted money is found out during the current clean up drive, accounts of tax evaders dating back to the country's independence in 1947 will be checked. If required I will hire people for this task,' Modi told the Indian community in Kobe.

He said he recognised people faced difficulties as the transition to the new series of bank notes takes place but was confident they would stand by the decision as part of the war against corruption and to rid India of endemic poverty.

Finance minister Arun Jaitley said ATMs had not been adjusted to handle new currency notes prior to the announcement in order to keep it under wraps. 'Recalibration of ATMs will be completed within two weeks,' he added.

Referring to inconvenience caused to public, Jaitley said there could be some, short-term disruptive cost to the economy due to the demonetisation drive but this would prove positive in the longer term.