Is Manmohan Singh a blessing or a curse?
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The PM, Dr Manmohan Singh, has naturally come under the hammer as he is the face of the government. He has been held responsible for the government's inaction. But despite such a widespread negative opinion, there is one respected gentleman who thinks that we Indians are blessed to have Dr Singh. This gentleman is none other than Mr Deepak Parekh, of HDFC Ltd who in 2011, was vociferous on issues like the inefficiencies of the Indian government. He is the same man who had co-authored the Open letter to the PM citing the need for better governance to improve the business sentiment in the country. Now in a recent media interview, Mr Parekh has stated that Dr Singh is the best Prime Minister that we have had. The reason for this is that Dr Singh is one of the cleanest politicians with hardly any scandal or misappropriation to his name. Without argument, Mr Parekh's reason is true. However, we think his conclusion is wrong.
True, Dr Singh is as clean a politician as it comes. However, his inaction and silence on the poor governance by his team question his ability to lead the country. We need a PM who is willing to bring about the much needed reforms. Considering that Dr Singh is the same person who had introduced reforms way back in 1991, he does appear to be the ideal candidate for this job. But by bowing to the demands of the coalition as well as the opposition, he seems to be doing everything but his job. His job profile appears to be just helping his peers in garnering more votes. Rather than helping the country, the job for which he was appointed in the first place.
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116 Responses to "Is Manmohan Singh a blessing or a curse?"
A G Rayeen
Jan 10, 2012There must not be any doubt that Mr. Singh is blessing for us. While we are critical to govt. and to Mr. Singh, we must not forget the current economic situation worldwide. Also, on economic front India is still doing better rather(7-7.5% GDP not so bad). Since, we have lot of expectations and those are increasing with time specially in this gloomy scenario and this is because we have economist like PM. There are various constraints before govt that we need to realize and be hopeful Mr. Singh will overcome his the most critical task.
M G Sharma
Jan 10, 2012What is the use that honesty or for that matter best ever ness which lead the the country to great disater, Mr. Parekh's words sounds like Chaaploosi
Avinash Bhome
Jan 10, 2012Yes Manmohansing was a blessings to Indian Economy in 1991 and 1992 when he pledged tons of Gold in the Bank of England, borrowed millions of dollars and put the Indian Economy on right track, after taking some very courageous decisions of opening the Indian Economy.
BU....A VERY BIG BUT.....is that in the recent past he has become less effective in the Indian politics, as he has no role to play in the decision making, which is prerogative of Sonia Gandhi. (Moreover he is not a politician, an academician/economist at the root.) He is just a Yes Madam man...unable to take decisions. Then what's the use of his being a Clean Man. He may be clean, but many around him in the Central (and State Congress) Governments are looters and dacoits, who have looted the country in thousands of crores, which is evident from various scams and skeletons which have tumbled out of cupboard of the UPA Govt. in the recent past. Still he can not take any corrective or punitive actions against the culprits. The " looting game continues ". So, despite the fact that Manmohansing was the most respected leader in the country, today his Clean image and Yes Madam role has become a curse to the country. He has been ineffective since he is surrounded by die-hard politicians of Congress who care very little for the country and its interests. To them their parety's interests and personal interests are uppermost and the Sonia Gandhi is the supreme not mother India. So it's better that Manmohansing steps down as early as possible, as he is ineffective otherwise.
Madhavankutty
Jan 10, 2012Yes somebody commented that Manmohansingh a blessing to India what is the use of it there is a proverb "one thousand
drop of honey can spoil a drop of fish water like that in one thousand fish water cannot purifie a drop of honey" what
he can do among all substandards.
There is only a way elctronic medias all print medias should come forward at least before six months of general election to help the nation in free of cost on behalf of public to advertise of able efficient honest and sincere for the choosing of candidate to the parliament for the govern of the country. No candidate should be allowed to go to the street, home to home to beg vote while distributing currencies articles to the voters so,they should not be allowed to poster or announcing on the street criminals rouges immorals should not be entertined
for parliament for that to be a strict vigilante by government and public then some part of corruption crime inflation can be root out.Let Manmohansing an another term so our nation can reach somewhere among the world.
S C Dash
Jan 10, 2012Dr Manmohan Singh was an excellent Finance Minister but he is a useless Prime Minister. He is not able to lead his team of ministers and not able to bring the next level of essential reforms for India. He should resign his post of PM and let the congress party choose their own elected PM.
The fact is that at present there is no good leader who can lead the present Government as PM and bring next level of reforms for our country.
pramod agrawal
Jan 10, 2012Every person is not happy with the PM as they want a magic from him to see our country at the top but no body see how his hands are tied by the alliance parties and surpringly no body is blaming them for all the slow down in the economy. if we want a clean and visionory govt we shuld cerainly bring a majority govt at the centre and shuld avoid reginal parties as they are they are game spoilers.
N.Nagaraja Rao
Jan 10, 2012No doubt Mr.Singh is a clean man but he is being used to do the dirty job. He is trying his best to clean the system with 100% sincerity but he needs clean tools to do so and the tools (his men) seem to be drenched in dirt to such an extent that he had to clean them up before he can clean the system and in the process of cleaning up his tools his hands will become dirty and the dirty men will prove him dirty.
Titus Rodrigues
Jan 10, 2012I guess Mr. PrimeMinister needs to go in for a regular skills upgrade course with the changing times and I think Mr Ram Charan has a number of books on Managing people which perhaps our PM could go through whenever time permits him.
Veera
Jan 10, 2012I agree with Mr. Deepak Parekh that the Prime Minister is a blessing to the country
Nikhil H Shah
Jan 10, 2012I repeat MS is the biggest BS (bull shit). Somebody rightly said, the GOD of reforms, as we believe him too be, was out of compulsion and not by choice of a genius mind. If he is genious, where is the geniusness gone? Out of the window. And remember we have gigiantic amount of scandal and corruption after the reform. Sum up all the scandals since 1991 and compare with 1947-1991 or even for that matter compare this with the loot of the Britishers. Real Britishers were better as they didn't not loot so much as these Indian Britishers. People were living happily and without fear.
And somebody wants Rahul(ji) and Sonia(ji) to lead the country. Is he out of his mind? What they know of India? Somebody wanted Pranab to be a PM. He is not a holy cow as he is made out to be now. Ask him how much he took from Dhirubhai to approve various RIL projects. He is going to be another puppet in the hands of Sonia.
The sad fact is that there is no person who can run this country efficiently and effectively, forget about leading the country. Friends, we are having a leadership crisis and that is the case since Nehru and Shastriji passed away. Then we had Indira and Rajiv. Thankfully they were taken away.
We have superstars in various fields, but India has yet to see a real and true hero, after Gandhiji and Sardar.