When Congress party won the election and was about to form the government in 2001/02, there was a crisis and Sonia tried her level best to become the PM, but after failing in her attempt, she stage managed a renounce drama. That time I wished and prayed that Dr. Manmohan Singh should become the Prime Minister. And as I wished (thanks to Dr. Kalam’s behind the screen effort to stop Sonia to become the PM, which is an open secret), finally I thought that we got a Prime Minister whom we deserve after a long gap. But after the breaking of all kinds of scams and the way Dr. Manmohan Singh openly expressed his inability to control both his govt. and Cabinet because of Coalition Dharma, I not only felt sorry for him but also regretted having such a Pitiable Prime Minister. In the past, we had able PM (Nehru), crooked PM (Indira Gandhi), noble PM (Sri Lal Bahadur Shastri Ji); honest PM (Sri Morarji Desai); shrewd PM (Sri Narasimha Rao), hopeless PM (Sri Deve Gowda), Cunning PM (V.P.Singh), hierarchy PM (Rajv Gandhi), Grand PM (Shri Vaijpayeeji) and many other PMs, who are not worth to be mentioned by naming them even as PMs. But never had we had a Prime Minister who deserves our pity like Manmohan Singh.
Well, my intention is not to degrade a few PMs and glorify others. However, though the rest of the PMs in the past have their own character, at least they had some political base and have contested and won the election. So there was some legitimacy for them to campaign for their respective political party in the election. But I cannot think why Dr. Singh has to waste his time and the public money by addressing election campaigns, that too for state elections, particularly in South India. For the State Assembly elections to be held on April 13th at Tamilnadu and Kerala he came to both the states to address just ONE meeting (at Coimbatore) and for this elaborate arrangements with security covers had to be made. By his one single election address all know, including him, that not a single voter is going to change his mind after watching him reading his election speech (which he does in every election speech). And the thin crowd which had to be arranged, highlighted his mass appeal. Even his own party members were not there to listen to his reading. He does not even enjoy his right as the citizen of India to speak what he wanted but had to read what he was asked by his political boss.
Why need such tokenism and symbolism wasting public money? The same is the case with Sonia addressing one meeting at Chennai. But it could be excused as she is the unchallenged boss of her party and so that kind of symbolism—however, it is not going to affect the electoral prospect of her party of the DMK coalition, could be justified. But the symbolism and tokenism of Dr. Singh’s election campaigns are mere waste and it further degrades his image as a weak PM and our pity for him further increases. As a free citizen, I have the freedom even to write this, but poor him, he cannot even say anything other than what he is asked to say by his boss.
What a pitiable Prime Minister? Our democracy never deserves such a Prime Minister.
Dayanand Bharati, Gurukulam,April 11, 2011
When Congress party won the election and was about to form the government in 2001/02, there was a crisis and Sonia tried her level best to become the PM, but after failing in her attempt, she stage managed a renounce drama. That time I wished and prayed that Dr. Manmohan Singh should become the Prime Minister. And as I wished (thanks to Dr. Kalam’s behind the screen effort to stop Sonia to become the PM, which is an open secret), finally I thought that we got a Prime Minister whom we deserve after a long gap. But after the breaking of all kinds of scams and the way Dr. Manmohan Singh openly expressed his inability to control both his govt. and Cabinet because of Coalition Dharma, I not only felt sorry for him but also regretted having such a Pitiable Prime Minister. In the past, we had able PM (Nehru), crooked PM (Indira Gandhi), noble PM (Sri Lal Bahadur Shastri Ji); honest PM (Sri Morarji Desai); shrewd PM (Sri Narasimha Rao), hopeless PM (Sri Deve Gowda), Cunning PM (V.P.Singh), hierarchy PM (Rajv Gandhi), Grand PM (Shri Vaijpayeeji) and many other PMs, who are not worth to be mentioned by naming them even as PMs. But never had we had a Prime Minister who deserves our pity like Manmohan Singh.
Well, my intention is not to degrade a few PMs and glorify others. However, though the rest of the PMs in the past have their own character, at least they had some political base and have contested and won the election. So there was some legitimacy for them to campaign for their respective political party in the election. But I cannot think why Dr. Singh has to waste his time and the public money by addressing election campaigns, that too for state elections, particularly in South India. For the State Assembly elections to be held on April 13th at Tamilnadu and Kerala he came to both the states to address just ONE meeting (at Coimbatore) and for this elaborate arrangements with security covers had to be made. By his one single election address all know, including him, that not a single voter is going to change his mind after watching him reading his election speech (which he does in every election speech). And the thin crowd which had to be arranged, highlighted his mass appeal. Even his own party members were not there to listen to his reading. He does not even enjoy his right as the citizen of India to speak what he wanted but had to read what he was asked by his political boss.
Why need such tokenism and symbolism wasting public money? The same is the case with Sonia addressing one meeting at Chennai. But it could be excused as she is the unchallenged boss of her party and so that kind of symbolism—however, it is not going to affect the electoral prospect of her party of the DMK coalition, could be justified. But the symbolism and tokenism of Dr. Singh’s election campaigns are mere waste and it further degrades his image as a weak PM and our pity for him further increases. As a free citizen, I have the freedom even to write this, but poor him, he cannot even say anything other than what he is asked to say by his boss.
What a pitiable Prime Minister? Our democracy never deserves such a Prime Minister.
Dayanand Bharati, Gurukulam,April 11, 2011
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