Demonetisation, along with surgical strikes in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, is the government’s signature feat, insist prime minister Narendra Modi, his ministers, and their minions. The monetary divestment, an experiment in audacity, for now, is entirely an executive conquest. Nov. 08, 2016: a notification; Dec. 30, 2016: an ordinance. A legislative battle, though, is imminent. Parliament will spring into session this week. The opposition, at once, will train its artillery on the Specified Bank Notes (Cessation of Liabilities) Ordinance, 2016. The decree will sustain adversarial fire; it may succumb to it, too. The Modi government must have primed itself for this. It must have a plan. Perhaps, render the upper house irrelevant, and veneer the ordinance with a hint of legislative legitimacy. The plan is simple and direct. Still, it won’t be smooth sailing. Why?