Comments on: Dear Dr Manmohan Singh, please resign

By: Vishaal Bhat

Vishaal Bhat — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:11:23 +0000

There is no way he is going to resign until the real power behind the throne (Gandhi) pulls a few strings

By: The Acorn » Good money after bad

The Acorn » Good money after bad — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:23:25 +0000

[...] implementing the scheme “honestly and sincerely”. As he should know by now, “honesty and sincerety”, even if it were for real, is not a sufficient guarantee of [...]

By: Prasanna Kovalam

Prasanna Kovalam — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:35:39 +0000

Hi Vishal,

Re #9, what does your point 1 have to do anything with the Nuclear deal?

Regards,
Prasanna

By: patel

patel — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 01:50:36 +0000

Yesterday the Chinese were all hush about supporting us at the NSG for this deal. Tommorow will be different though, now I’m sure we’ll have their complete support.

By: Arun

Arun — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:38:21 +0000

It is all about staying in power, nobody cares about nuclear power. Suckers, true suckers.

By: vishal

vishal — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:40:29 +0000

Actually, he thinks India used tobe a tribalistic civilization with no culture.

He thinks Britishers came and civilized us.

Now, we cant expect such person to trust one Indian’s capabilities.

He runs to WEST for every problem, because we indians cant do it outself! (be it nuclear R&D or even funding home-grown Retail-Chain-Model instead of asking Walmart to come and save our sorry ass!)

Ok, i am done enough.. cant go on..
I am out.

Take care guys.

By: vishal

vishal — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:34:34 +0000

MMS is not even elected by voters. I feel ashamed to call him PM of my country.

1.The way his government allowed western Disney Company to take over a publisher of historical indian mythologies and content(remember comic book “ChandaMama”??), now its under the western company.

Soon they will remove indian short-stories and put western stories in kids comics, so after 15 years, you will see chanting western rhymes and forget our historic collection of stories like Tenali-Raman and all.

2. The way SoniaG killed the nuclear deal by talking too much in Himachal election rally, directly attacking Left. It was totally meaningful. A politically shrewd person put his mouth shut. She is experienced enough to know what was going to happen. So she spoke and it angered Left and whatever window was there when El-baradi came to India, that day, closed immediately as Left issued ultimatum not to talk with him.

Vajpayee was one of best PM we had. Thanks to him, we got through santions period bravely and even developed a lot of nuclear technology in last 6 years of his period.

MMS is just killing domestic nuclear R&D climate and funding by inviting american biggies here.

3. Solution is open nuclear R&D sector to Indian private companies. thats it! MMS is not dumb to know this.

4. Real problem of MMS is he dont believe in “capabilities” of “indian nuclear scientists”. MARK my words. He has said it openely.

By: Aravind

Aravind — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 08:17:09 +0000

I doubt he has the courage to resign. I applaud the Congress coterie which has chosen him as the perfect puppet who has no voice of his own. Nothing can push this man to stand up for himself. Any self-respecting politician would not take this treatment in the hands of Communists. I really pity him for pushing himself into this quagmire. I hope the voters in Bengal and Kerala see how national interest is being severely undermined by these ideologues.

By: rishi

rishi — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:06:07 +0000

Nitin,
I think that you are under a wrong impression.

The primary function of Dr Singh is not to serve as a honest face to a dishonest and corrupt government. Experience has shown that the Indian voter really does not care for or reward honesty.

The primary function of Dr Singh is to be non-threatening prime minister. One who has no personal ambitions and cannot have any personal ambitions of his own. He is just a regent, until the real king i.e. Rahul Gandhi is ready to ascend the throne.

That he is personally honest is just a side effect and even did not change the composition of his cabinet.

By: Retributions » Mr Prime Minister: Resign

Retributions » Mr Prime Minister: Resign — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 18:12:17 +0000

[...] Prime Minister: Prove your critics wrong. Resign. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS [...]

By: Oldtimer

Oldtimer — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:39:26 +0000

Arun Shourie gave us an eminently quotable quote. He said of MM Singh: “his lasting legacy will be to give good men a bad name”.

By: Anuj

Anuj — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:55:09 +0000

From what I have heard, [anecdotally from senior bureaucrats ], Mrs.Prime Minister [Singh not Gandhi] has accumulated significant wealth, pushed up by a coterie of loyal sevaks, who were brought to 10 Race Course Road from her ancestral village in Punjab.
And, Manmohan is aware of this, allegedly.

By: Anand Sampath

Anand Sampath — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 13:48:09 +0000

In a different context, it was said of Emperor Jahangir that he “tumbled into life, fumbled through it and stumbled out of it”.

Mr. Cling-on Singh, tumbled into the PM’s office, has fumbled through it and maybe will like Abe, soon stumble out of it!

By: Kannan

Kannan — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 08:15:05 +0000

Once a puppet, always a puppet. MM Singh is just a puppet of a dynasty that wants to rule India forever. Even Kings of yore did not have such dynastial ambitions.

A law needs to be passed barring children/families of politicians from public office. Why should India suffer the same thugs from generation to generation ? Look at Karnataka, the medically insane certified Deve Gowda and his son think the state is theirs.