Aakar Patel | History is likely to remember Manmohan Singh quite warmly…
Deccan ChronicleMuch has been written and will be written about what Manmohan Singh was. The power to issue money is an indication of the power of a country and no one gives up power voluntarily.” Manmohan Singh was unable to put party before nation unlike his predecessor. It reads: “No sooner had party president Jana Krishnamurthy completed his presidential address than Narendra Modi got up and said in his sombre, chaste Hindi: ‘Adhyakshji, I want to speak on Gujarat … From the party’s point of view, this is a grave issue. This is something for New India to consider when being told today that Manmohan Singh was weak and unable to resist pressure. One may feel, as I do, a sort of aesthetic distaste for Gandhi, one may reject the claims of sainthood made on his behalf, one may also reject sainthood as an ideal and therefore feel that Gandhi’s basic aims were anti-human and reactionary: but regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind!”
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