The recent revelations about the incumbent Prime Minister of India are not new or shocking to us, but these revelations have just confirmed our doubts which we were not able to digest since the inception of UPA-1 in the early 21st century.
I had heard through media that our PM used to report Soniya Gandhi at her residence-10 Janpath saying Government is responsible to party. After media interventions, PM requested Soniya jee to come 7RCR for the reports. Wasn't that bizarre that the PM of the world's largest and vibrant democracy visited 10 Janpath for reporting to party chairperson?
Some experts were (and are) of the view that Manmohan Singh was an overrated Economist and an underrated Prime Minister. Even TIME international magazine put him on the cover page stating "Manmohan Singh: The Underachiever" and in inside story wrote he is the honest leader of corrupt and dishonest cabinet which is involved in numerous multi-billion $ scams.
Ex media adviser of our PM Manmohan Singh, Singh Sanjaya Baru reveals in his recently launched book "The Accidental Prime Minister" that UPA Chairpersom Soniya Gandhi had the final say in everything which should be with the PM. Manmohan Singh is the weakest ever PM having no authority and he is mere a rubber stamp.
In another blow to PM Manmohan Singh, Ex- Coal secretary PC Parakh, who retired as coal secretary in 2005 accuses Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of being weak and unable to stamp out corruption on his watch and unable to control his cabinet ministers in his book "Crusader or Conspirator? Coalgate and Other Truths".
It is clear that whatever we shared on Facebook,Twitter or any other social media about PM Manmohan Singh being robot, remote-controlled machine, maun-mohan singh, kathputli etc was not wrong.
It is strange to see that Lok Sabha election happens to elect PM, but our PM Manmohan Singh is from Rajya Sabha, that too from Assam and winning since 1991. Rajya Sabha MP is not elected by people directly by voting. People elect Lok Sabha MPs. So in the UPA-1 and UPA-2,people of India did not elect the PM directly.
Actually, UPA chairperson Soniya Gandhi was the PM since 2004 and she used all her power to govern India and governed in a bad shape. Even his own party member Salman Khurshid says, Manmohan Singh was an accidental PM. Congress dwarfed the PMO in an unprecedented manner.
When it comes to the accidental leaders, I see two people are there in the list One is UPA Chairperson Soniya Gandhi herself and the second is Mr. Rahul Gandhi. Soniya Gandhi who was forced to enter politics because she lost her husband Rajiv Gandhi and Congress party was looking for the dynastic leader. Rahul Gandhi who entered politics in 2004 with the golden spoon, no experience of what poverty is, what government is. He did not take any kind of responsibility in his own government. The leadership was thrust upon by his mother and the champions of Congress party.
We all have seen the recent interviews and speeches of Rahul jee. The way he speaks, the way he folds his sleeves of kurta, the way he address the public and the way he tries to take the credits of RTI,MGNREGA,RTE,RTF etc. Will we able to call him a leader? If the government cannot give a job to the inexperienced engineers, how can we think of making an inexperience leader a PM, just because he belongs to Gandhi family? Never. Yeah, some pro-congress people might fall for his dimples and might dream to see him as PM.
Have you ever thought that even after ruling for almost six decades, Congress still says about empowering poor, eradicate poverty and hunger, providing jobs to youth, providing electricity and water supply? Wasn't Congress unsuccessful in fulfilling all these in almost 60 years of rulings? Why should we give him another decade? Why can't we seek change by myriad voting?
Where Atalji had left at such high GDP growth, the newly formed government had great opportunity to take India at the driver seat of world's economy and development if it could have taken strong long term initiatives. But this period of 2004-2014 will be written in black letters in the History. It can be considered as the decade of unwanted and foolish experiments whereas we needed development.The kind of politics people of India have seen in the last ten years, I pray to God that our children would not see such leadership and such pitiable politics in the future. We,now,desperately need a strong leader at the PMO who can work selflessly for India's development and prosperity, we need a single party with 272+ seats in the LokSabha so that the pending crucial bills can be passed unanimously. This is democracy, we need to get rid of dynastic politics, the accidental PM and the accidental leaders.
(The views expressed are personal.)
(The views expressed are personal.)
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