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| Manmohan Singh kyun dukhi hain | | | The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is a sad man today. Reason- the
Economist, Dr. Singh, the pioneer of economic reforms in India, is
forced to surrender before and give goodbye to his agenda of economic
reforms, as Prime Minister of the country, under compulsions of
political situation. The Congress led UPA government, the major
constituent of which is committed to economic reforms initiated by
Narsimha Rao led Congress government, with Manmohan as the point man
of reforms as the Finance Minister in Narsimha Rao government, is
being dictated terms by its allies, either DMK, which is past of the
coalition government or Left parties who support the government from
outside. Further some of the Congress ministers in the Congress led
government and party leaders too are opposing the reforms and trying
to put impediments in the way. At least they plead slow going on the
process, with a view to placate the Leftist allies and not to lose the
vote bank of working classes, before whom economic reforms are
presented as against their interest.
Forced to rollback the disinvestment decision with his own party
watching from the sidelines, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has let his
displeasure known to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and other leaders
forcing the party to officially dismiss speculation that he may quit.
Rejecting rumours right through the day that the PM, in an
enough-is-enough outburst, had threatened to quit, an aide of the PM
and Congress spokesperson Jayanti Natarajan called it "undiluted
rumour-mongering." However, Singh's unhappiness over being forced to
rollback the decision on disinvestment in NALCO and NLC, a decision to
which the Congress and the DMK had been party, has been confirmed by
several sources in the party and government. "The PM is unhappy and
frustrated," a senior Cabinet member said. The challenge before him is
to make necessary compromises and run the government, a party
functionary said. These issues came up in the core committee of the
Congress, including Sonia Gandhi, which met for nearly two hours at
the PM's residence. There was no official word from the party about
the meeting-Pranab Mukherjee called it routine-but a senior
functionary said disinvestment and the AIIMS row were part of the
discussions. At the meeting, the PM is said to have argued that
funding for social sector schemes and projects depends on
disinvestment proceeds.
The BJP led NDA government which had followed the agenda of economic
reforms initiated by Rao government has now got the handle to dub
Manmohan Singh as the weak Prime Minister. However, Dr. Singh's
position today is no better than that of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who as
Prime Minister of NDA led government was forced to several of his
decisions and even go against his wishes, under pressure from allies
on one hand and from his own Sangh parivaar outfits on the other.
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