INDIA HONEST extends prime minister Manmohan Singh its best wishes on his 81st birthday.
Indian people has utmost regards for your honesty, integrity , knowledge and dedication for the nation proved through your esteemed services, be it as a governor of RBI or as the celebrated economist and bold finance minister of India, while visualising economic reforms to Indian shore as early as in nineties, but ?
But your forward journey, as the last minute substitution to Sonia Gandhi as India's prime minister, was a trap alike the "Mahabharata Chakraviuh", which you were basically and ironically not supposed to break and come out more dignified, just like one of our most courageous and greatest prime minister Indira Gandhi was able to break from the grips of famous Kamraj Group (Atulayo ,Patil and .....) in seventies. That will be the minute spot on your huge contributions to the dream for India, that went wrong for the mission you set about, building a modern India in sync with the global economy.
Many will still say the past belonged to the economist Manmohan Singh till 2004, but the present is thrust on politician Manmohan Singh, which he was never. Yes, he should have intelligence,courage and dignity enough to break from the clutches at least after 2009 ; then the history would have written him differently. How people will remember Manmohan Singh, bold reforming economist or a honest but weak prime minister, bulking under pressure from the political party he adopted ?