Manmohan Singh ,one of the greatest Prime Ministers of India

Shri ManMohan Singh is one of the greatest Prime Ministers of India.He is 82 years old.He is the Prime Minister who achieved the distinction of serving two tenures as Prime Minister,the longest after the first PM of India Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru who was in office for a glorious 17 years of tenure. Shri Manmohan Singh is one of the most celebrated economist of India.He entered Indian Politics at the time of big economic crisis during the tenure of Late shri PV.Narasimha Rao who had inducted him into the Government as Finance Minister. Shri Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh together worked day and night to lift the economy out of the balance of Paymet Crisis to pave way for for the economic reforms on which there had been no need to look back.India should be thankful to them for the economic stability we are enjoying today. Shri Mam Mohan Singh was a technical expert in the field of Economy.He had occupied various coveted positions including the Reserve Bank Governor.He had the solid reputation of sound probity and integrity which perhaps made him as the best and automatic choice for the post of Prime Minister of India by the then President of National Congress Smt Sonoa Gandhi who had to renounce the post of PM when she faced the row of being a foreign lady in spite of being the wife of yet another Glorious Prime Minister of India shri Rajiv Gandhi who was assassinated. The aftermath of the 2002 post- Gujrat riot and an unusual communal atmosphere that followed,Shri Manmohansingh was able to bring a much advantagesd situation to form Government in the country. Shri Manmohansingh always displayed determination in administration of India especially when the issue of Indo-US Nuclear deal in spite of the supporting Ally of Left parties withdrew the support they had offered until then. But his Government went ahead without any damage to it. It was proved beyond doubt that he was an expert and a renowned Economist of India in most part of his tenure by maintaining A GDP Grouth 8.5 percent. Unfortunately ,he was stamped as a weak prime minister by the opposition branding him as a puppet in the hands of the congress Smt Sonia Gandhi .He even haunted by the critics attacking him as a weak Prime Minister. He was the first Sikh to become a Primeminister after the Italian Christian party president Sonia Gandhi had nominated him to the post taking into account his abilities as a renowned economist and his experience in various coveted posts.To depict the non communal atmosphere prevailed in India he was sworn -in by a Muslim President Dr.APJ AbdulKalam. Shri Manmohan Singh had served as the Economic adviser to the Government and Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission before getting elevated to the post of the Prime Minister of India in 2004. His second Tenure in 2009 came as a surprise when Congress led U P A alliance came to power solely as a result of the courage displayed by the Congress President because of his success in the first Tenure. Shri.Manmohan Singh had never been considered as dishonest or corrupted by anyone although he had to carry on with the allegation of being the head of the Ministery full of scams. In fact shri Manmohan Singh was at the Top of the world when the American president visited the Indian Parliament and delivered a historical speech which the Parliament listened in total silence. Those days the words of Manmohan Singh were considered as Pearls of Wisdom. But then surfacesd Scams one after another marking the decline of his image in spite of his being honest without getting named as corrupted or dishonest.He served his both Tenure Majestically notwithstanding many a scams. Things started sliding for him with the beginning of the common wealth games held in India and climaxed to the 2-G Spectrum Scandalcosting the exchequer Rs.1.68 Trillion.This ill fated wealth had gone into the Pockets of his trusted Ministers particularly Shri A.Raja the former Communication Minister who belonged the Dravida Munnetra Kazhakam of Tamil Naadu.This still haunts Shri Manmohan Singh as a skeleton of Nightmare followed by Coalgate Scam. The black money deposits as many as 26 people in Swiss Banks also added fuel to the damage caused to his reputation. Notwithstanding all these No one accused Shri Manmohan Singh of corruption.At the same time no one believed that he was unaware of what was being happening around him.The general impression among people was that though he was honest and not susceptible corruption he knew what was happening around him but did not like to endanger his Government. From this Dilemma ,he was able to pass through the horns of it to some extent when he reached an agreement with Bengladesh Prime minister and later when he invited Raza Gilani to watch the World Cup semifinal cricket match between India and Pakistan at Mohali. Thus the cordial atmosphere prevailed at the borders helped him to retrieve his lost prestige as Prime Minister.At this stage people praised his farsightedness and ability to relieve tension with cordial relations with Pakistan. But this reputation short lived. Once again the cordial atmosphere turned into nightmare to jeopardise his efforts with the agitation against corruption by Anna Hazare besides the deliberate action from Pakistan Militant Hafiz Saeed denouncing the cricket diplomacy with India. His reluctance to remove Suresh Kalmadi at the time of Common wealth game scandal and of A.Raja at the time of 2G spectrum cases virtually lead to further developments in which ceased to be the Prime Minister of India. Thus a Honest ,Capable and well qualified Prime Minister had to cut a sorry figure in front of his people and had to step down at a time India was in the path of overall progress and Financial Stability. Very unfortunate for a renowned and experienced economist who knew matters of Finance more than anyone else in India. Shri Manmohan Singh is a very highly qualified person who is ,perhaps,the authority for Financial matters in India. He has held more than 20 coveted posts during his carrier. Hemis the recipient of various honourable awards ,the prominent among them are starting from PADMAVIBHOOSHAN IN 1987 are as under: 1987. padmavibhooshan The Government of India. 1993. Finance Minister of the year- Euromoney &Asiamoney 1994. All India member and Fellow of Management Assocition Elected Distinguished Fellow of the London School of Economics. ElectedHonorary Fellow of Nuffield College. Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Award( 1994-95 from Science Congress Association. 1995. JawaharLal NehruBirth Centenary Award for second time 1996 Honorary Professor of Delhi School of economics ,University of Delhi 1997. NikkeiAsia prize for Regional Grouth. From NihonKeizai Shimbun Inc. Lokmanya Tilak Award. Thilak Smaraka Trust Pune Justice K.S.Hegde Foundation Award. Justice K.S.Hegde Foundation 1999. Fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences,New Delhi from NAA H.H.Kanchi Sri Paramacharya Award of Excellence. From Shri .R.Venkataraman,The Centenarian Trust. 2000. Annasaheb Chirmule Award. Annasaheb Chirmule Trust 2002. Outstanding Parliamentarian Award. Indian Parliamentarian Group. 2005. Top Hundred influential people in the world. Time 2008. World Statesman Award. Appeal of Conscience Foundation. 2014. Grand Cordon of the order of the Paulownia Flowers. Government of India Let us hope this Gem of an Honourable and Soft spoken person with very high qualification who always maintain the habit of less talk and more work lead us again to prosperity in due course of time. Sreedharan Mundanat 25th of April 2016 16-30hrs(IST)