[Reader-list] PM IS HONOURABLE MAN, BUT IS THAT ENOUGH?

[Bipin Trivedi]

CWG, 2G spectrum, scam after scam has shaken the UPA heavily. They themselves created such situation knowingly and PM also keeps mum knowingly, why?

Kalmadi or Raja is hardly 3/5% beneficiary of this whole scam money. The major portion was gone to relevant political parties bosses like Karunanidhi, Sonia of course for party fund mainly. So, whenever PM tried to stop earlier for such deal/step, high command stopped him and allowed the things.

Thanks
Bipin Trivedi


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From: reader-list-bounces at sarai.net [mailto:reader-list-bounces at sarai.net] On Behalf Of geeta seshu
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I've never understood how merely being soft-spoken makes a man honourable?

Manmohan Singh is one of the prime architects of the so called
liberalisation agenda, isn't he? From his World Bank days to the present, he
really hasn't deviated from those goals, irrespective of the huge upheavals
it has caused and the complete refusal to discuss or engage with dissent on
these issues...

what's honourable about that?



On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Bipin Trivedi <aliens at dataone.in> wrote:

>
>
> http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Mindboggling/entry/pm-is-an-honoura
> ble-man-but-is-that-enough
>
> BY SHALINI SINGH
>
>
> Two years ago, I buttonholed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at a meeting
> organised by the Indian Women's Press Corps, asking him how he reconciled
> his two roles: of being a distinguished scholar with an unblemished record
> and the head of a Cabinet in which allegations of venality have stuck on
> against his ministerial colleagues.
>
> Without a moment of reflection, the Prime Minister replied: "There have
> been
> some charges of corruption but they have not been proved." And he turned
> his
> head away.
>
> The telecom scam was then screaming headline news in every financial daily.
> The Times of India was furnishing hard evidence of how a select few were
> stuffing their pockets with money that rightfully belonged to the public.
> Editorials cried out for justice. Letters to the PM beseeching him to
> intervene piled up. But Manmohan Singh, and he is an honourable man, did
> nothing.
>
> The telecom scam is not an isolated blot. There are many other blots: the
> Satyam scam, the IPL sleaze and then the CWG bust-up. On the political
> front, we have the Sharm el-Sheikh shame, rocketing inflation and the
> Kashmir flare-up.
>
> The PM, being an honourable man, has been compelled to modify his clipped
> responses to control the damage from this sweeping canvas of spectacular
> failures. Since he can no more claim that his Cabinet is clean, he now
> says,
> “The guilty will be punished.”
>
> That's a non sequitur. In all likelihood, it means nothing will be done. It
> reeks of paralysis at the highest level of government, something India can
> ill-afford. Is this because, as some in the precincts of power say, Singh
> no
> longer enjoys the trust of his party president? Or is it despite the fact
> that he faces no authority deficit?
>
> Either way, it shows him up in extremely poor light. Indeed, there's no
> justification for his defeated silence on his squabbling Cabinet
> colleagues,
> corruption, price rise, Kashmir, the Maoist insurgency, and the CWG mess.
>
> The people of India expect Singh to demonstrate moral outrage. But for that
> he must first gather moral courage. When Sonia Gandhi — despite being the
> head of the single largest party — chose to abdicate power in 2004 in
> favour
> of Singh, we believed she had done the right thing. Singh represented the
> most acceptable face of the Congress. Indeed, being an honourable man, he
> himself has remained above board. Newsweek recently described him as a most
> respected international statesman.
>
> Which is why Singh's lack of moral fibre, now when it is most needed, is
> all
> the more galling. His trust quotient with the people at home is abysmally
> low. While Singh’s apologists say the pressures of coalition politics are
> cramping him, others contend that it's apparent he is unwilling to renounce
> the trappings of power. The honourable man is revealing his tragic flaw. He
> can still make history and be the extraordinary statesman by refusing to
> shield his corrupt colleagues and officials. He could quit his high office
> and lead by example.
>
> India craves a clean and visionary leadership. Singh, with his weak
> approach
> to issues bedeviling his party and the people at large, has established
> that
> he is not that leader. The Prime Minister is an honourable man, and the
> course of honour, as opposed to the course of law, demands that he exits
> while his honour is still in tact.
>
>
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