Manmohan Singh’s success lay in making a decisive and historic shift towards the West. It was also audacious, in my book even more so than the 1991 reform, given how little support it had within Congress and UPA.
Appointed as finance minister under prime minister PV Narasimha Rao, Singh enacted slew of reforms that broke shackles of overregulation & protectionism.
The late former PM was among the Modi regime's sharpest critics. And though he did not make too many interventions, the few times he did speak up, he packed quite a punch.
BRICS, India-US civil nuclear deal, Quad, Pakistan, SCO, were all part of late former PM's foreign engagements, which set India on path of 'multi-vector' diplomacy, to quote Jaishankar.
Singh often quoted a 19th century German statesman, saying: ‘Politics is the art of the possible.’ He believed designing reforms might be a science, but executing them was an art.
According to Congress sources, Singh’s daughter will arrive after midnight on Friday, & that the ‘last darshan’ would be scheduled for Saturday between 8:00 and 10:00 am.
Singh’s outlook on economic & political matters was often at odds with Congress. There were instances when he initially found himself isolated, only for the party to fall in line later.
India’s 14th Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh passed away at AIIMS, Delhi, Thursday at age 92. During his tenure, India emerged as one of the world’s fastest-growing economies.
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge says history shall judge Singh kindly. India has lost a visionary statesman, a leader of unimpeachable integrity & an economist of unparalleled stature, he asserts.
One has to be incredibly credulous to buy BJP spin masters’ argument that the government got rid of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar for harmonious relationship with the judiciary.
Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
A thinking person’s Prime Minister. A place for a fine intellect at the apex of governance. As incandescent an intellect as Shri Shiv Shankar Menon has said he always learnt something after each meeting with him, left with a better understanding of issues.
A thinking person’s Prime Minister. A place for a fine intellect at the apex of governance. As incandescent an intellect as Shri Shiv Shankar Menon has said he always learnt something after each meeting with him, left with a better understanding of issues.
Communists protesting the nuclear deal is a good example to show that ‘Communists are an obstacle to progress’.