Manmohan Singh can be called an accidental PM but not a weak politician, these 5 examples are enough. Opinion – Manmohan Singh can be called accidental PM but not a weak politician opns2
Manmohan Singh was asked in a press conference that BJP and Narendra Modi (then Chief Minister of Gujarat) accuse him of being a weak Prime Minister. The question was very common but Manmohan Singh’s answer was such that only an esoteric politician could have given it. He said, very politely, that he did not believe that he was a weak Prime Minister. He further says that this decision has to be taken by history. Whatever BJP and its allies want to say, they can say it. If your becoming a strong Prime Minister means killing innocent citizens on the streets of Ahmedabad, then I do not believe that the country needs such a strong Prime Minister. Obviously, a better answer than this answer of Manmohan Singh could not have been expected. In fact, despite Manmohan Singh having dozens of achievements in good governance in the country, he was still considered the PM in name only. It is deeply ingrained in the minds of people that Sonia Gandhi was running the government. But the reality was something else. All the achievements of Manmohan government were such that they were achieved only because of him. And the most important thing is that to achieve those achievements, he also showed the shrewdness of even the best politicians.
1-Joining Samajwadi Party and BJP in nuclear deal.
In the year 2008, Manmohan Singh’s government was running with the support of Samajwadi Party and Left parties. In 2008, Manmohan Singh government was under threat due to the nuclear deal with America. Left parties and Samajwadi Party were opposing it. The kind of indication Sonia Gandhi had given at the Hindustan Times summit made it clear that the party would focus on saving the government and not the Manmohan Singh government’s nuclear deal with America. But Manmohan Singh was not ready to back down from his decision. The situation became such that the Manmohan government was in danger of falling. The leftist parties had withdrawn their support from the government. At such a time, the task of convincing Manmohan Singh, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav for support was possible due to the efforts of Manmohan Singh himself. Was. Manmohan Singh, despite being the Prime Minister, always did not forget to visit Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s house on his birthday. Like a great politician, Manmohan knew how to maintain cordial relations even with his opponents.
2- Manmohan took the final credit on MNREGA
MNREGA was a very ambitious scheme of the UPA government. It was only because of this scheme that the UPA government was able to regain power in 2009. In 2007, the Congress Party wanted Rahul Gandhi to get the credit for this employment scheme (then known as NREGA). Rahul Gandhi comes to meet Manmohan Singh on his birthday. PM’s then media advisor Sanjay Baru is asked to issue a press release that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi (who was the party’s general secretary at that time) has demanded implementation of NREGA in the entire country.
Baru then told Ahmed Patel that Manmohan Singh had already told the country from the ramparts of the Red Fort that NREGA was going to be implemented in the entire country. And the credit for implementing it should go to Manmohan and his minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh. In the release issued by Baru, NREGA was described as Manmohan Singh’s birthday gift to the public. Some newspapers, including the Indian Express, published what Sanjay Baru said, but many other newspapers, while publishing the Congress release, gave credit for the plan to Rahul Gandhi. Due to giving the credit of this plan to Manmohan Singh, later Sanjay Baru also had to resign but finally the real thing reached the world.
3-84 Apologize for the riots
Manmohan Singh knew that the stain of 84 riots on the Congress party would not go away even by making a Sikh the PM. Showing foresight, he considered it appropriate to apologize to the Sikh community for this. He reiterated during the ongoing discussion on Nanavati Commission in the Rajya Sabha that whatever happened was a matter of shame for the entire nation.
He said in the House that the leader of the opposition has said that I should apologize, so I want to tell that five-six years ago I had gone to Harmandar Saheb with the Congress President and there we had bowed our heads and asked him to show us the path which would Whatever happened should never happen again. He said that I have no hesitation in apologizing not only to the Sikh community but also to the entire Indian nation. Whatever happened was against the national sentiment and hence the government and the nation My head bows in shame.
It was the miracle of Manmohan Singh that today the Sikh community in the country is with the Congress. Even in Punjab, the Sikh community no longer has any complaints against the Congress. Congress party is not in power in Punjab but it is in a much better position than other parties. Before the formation of the Aam Aadmi Party government, there was a Congress government in the state.
4- To keep the government afloat even after DMK’s withdrawal of support.
DMK had withdrawn support from the UPA government in 2013 on the issue of atrocities on Sri Lankan Tamils. In the political scenario, his withdrawal of support meant that the government could fall at any time. But Mayawati and Mulayam Singh Yadav had control over Manmohan Singh. However, Mulayam Singh, who was supporting from outside, had created such a stir with his statements at that time that Manmohan Singh, who was often silent, had to give a statement on the stability of the government. Mulayam Singh Yadav was continuously attacking the Congress party. In a party program in Lucknow, he said that fighting Congress is not easy. Will put you in jail. CBI will put it behind. He even praised his arch rival BJP leader LK Advani. Despite this, if the government survived, it was not Congress but Manmohan Singh’s personal relations that were behind it.
5- Becoming PM once again was a sign of political maturity.
Whatever you may say about Manmohan Singh, it is not so easy to get a post like Prime Minister again. That too at a time when the entire party was giving credit for the victory in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections to Rahul Gandhi. Even before the elections, Manmohan Singh was told that his health was not good and hence Rahul would lead the elections and not you. During the elections, Congress was also not assuming that the party would get better seats in the 2009 elections than in 2004. But with his political intelligence, Manmohan Singh had maintained his image such that there was no one to take his place in the Congress.
The opposition used to accuse the Manmohan Singh government of following the instructions of Sonia Gandhi or Rahul Gandhi. In response to this he said in a PC that there is no harm in it. If the party president or vice president feels that his views should be reflected in the thinking of the government, then there is no harm in it. Sonia Gandhi or Rahul Gandhi are only there to help the government, if they feel that there should be reform in the government.
