Is Manmohan Singh a liability for the Congress (and for the Nation too)?

Is Manmohan Singh a liability for the Congress (and for the Nation too)?

(Editorial in Hindu Voice, Oct. 2013 - 28th Sept. 2013)

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At last, the Bharatiya Janata Party has declared Narendra Modi as its Prime Ministerial candidate, thanks to the stubborn stand taken by its mentor, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. It is the right decision and is undoubtedly welcomed by the entire nation.

Hindu Voice has all along been campaigning for this day. I have also teased RSS for shying away from politics and not taming BJP. Ultimately RSS did what the people of this nation (conveyed by Hindu Voice) wanted - NaMo as BJP’s PM candidate.

I have all along been writing that the declaration of NaMo as BJP’s PM candidate is going to electrify the voters and is going to bring a Hindu tsunami. The Mahakumbh held in Bhopal on 25th, where about 7 lakh assembled to listen to NaMo, and the Trichy Rally on 26th Sept. are proof. All these words - ‘electrify’, ‘tsunami’, etc. - are now being freely used by many panelists during their TV debate. 

It seems that NaMo has no worthy competitor. It is strange that the Congress does not want to name Rahul Gandhi as the dynasty’s PM candidate, although he was being groomed for that post. In that case, one fails to understand, why the Congress is not proposing the name of Manmohan Singh (MMS) for the third time? (MMS, has not talked of retiring, but has said that he is prepared to work under Rahul). It is an indirect admission that Manmohan Singh is a liability for the Congress (and for the nation too). The Congress knows that they are going to lose the election, and hence, they may think, there is no purpose in naming one as its PM candidate!

As we all know, MMS was never a politician. He was a bureaucrat and used to take orders from ‘above’. Old habits die hard. Hence, even after becoming the PM of India, he never acted independently and was always waiting for orders. Hence he created a National Advisory Council (NAC), with an illiterate Sonia as its chief, so that he can continue to get orders from ‘above’. Dangerously, now in the absence of NAC, he starts taking orders from Pakistan (ISI) and USA. He is surrendering India’s interest by signing the Nuclear deal with USA. And by meeting Pak PM in New York, he is acquiescing to Pak army men beheading our soldiers and taking their head as trophy.

Manmohan Singh is the most communal and anti-national PM India has ever had. His heart beats only for Muslims. He does not care about Hindus even if they are brutally killed, like in Muzaffarnagar.

The day he made the statement that Minorities will have first claim on our resources, he proved his fanaticism. It is a communal statement, apart from being unconstitutional. Can a PM ever think of dividing the citizens in the name of religion? But he went unchallenged, due to an amenable opposition lead by Mr. L.K. Advani.

The Sachhar committee is a rank communal setup. Its report has schemed Hindus against Muslims. No doubt, a welfare state has to take care of the poor and the downtrodden. But can this be done on the basis of religion? Are there no poor among Hindus? Are there no rich among Muslims? Is this simple fact not known to the so-called economist PM?

The UPA Govt. itself is targeting Hindu saints for taking a stand against the govt. policies. Look at how Sant Asaram Bapu is being harassed, and how Baba Ramdev was detained at the London Hethrow Airport for nearly 8 hours, due to purposely wrongful stamping of his Passport by the immigration authorities at New Delhi airport.

Is there a single action taken by this insensitive PM for maintaining communal harmony? By appeasing Muslims, even by subverting the constitution, he has immensely contributed to the communal divide. In the process, he has earned the ill-will of majority Hindus. This is going to be reflected in the forthcoming election.

The victory of Congress in 2009 is the making of BJP. Due to the wrong policies of BJP, the voters (who were deadly against Congress) preferred to remain absent from voting. And with a low voters’ turn out, the Congress stole an undeserved victory. After 10 years, the government headed by MMS has taken the country back to 1990 in sheer economic terms. In terms of other social and public values, we have become a banana republic. In terms of politics, we are back to 1947.

He was supposed to be a ‘honest’ PM. But look at the fact. In a disproportionate asset case, Jaganmohan Reddy has spent 16 months in jail even before conviction, but in similar such cases, Mayavati, Mulayam and Lallu are roaming free. How can a PM, who protects criminals simply to remain in power, be honest? 

MMS as PM has systematically destroyed every democratic institutions. Statutory authorities like the CBI and the office of the Attorney General have been subverted and made to fall in line. The CBI is set against the Intelligence Bureau, to the pleasant surprise of terrorists, crooks and anti-nationals.

Our defence forces are many years behind in terms of armaments and weaponry. The UPA Govt. has given up purchases of modern weapons from abroad. Hence their very capacity to defend the country has been seriously eroded. Chinese troops camp on our territory for weeks on end. Our nation is being kicked around by even a Maldives or a Bhutan. Now even the ex-Army Chief is being framed, as he shared the dais with Modi.

MMS is going to leave behind for the next government an India that is bankrupt, ungovernable, riven by communal conflicts, and all its institutions destroyed?

Such a dishonest, unscrupulous, unpatriotic and spineless PM has no right to continue even for a day. At the earliest opportunity, we must show him the door.