manmohan singh achievements

Manmohan singh achievements

In most countries, what a Prime Minister says at a press conference makes headlines. In India, that the reticent Manmohan Singh is holding a press conference at all, is news.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is scheduled to meet media on friday and is likely to hard sell the achievements of the UPA government in the last decade.

Inflation, economic growth is likely to be on top of the agenda as the PM addresses the media today.

The timing of the press interaction has evoked wide interest as it comes only a few months before the United Progressive Alliance government seeks re-election, amid a growing clamour that the Congress name a candidate for PM in the run-up to the elections. That candidate is unlikely to be Singh.

The PM does address journalists when he travels abroad but is otherwise notoriously media-shy, uncomfortable in large press gaggles. This news conference will be Singh’s only second such interaction in his second term as PM (since May 2009), though he has met five editors and a group of television editors once each. He addressed only one press conference in his first term (2004-09). The All-India Congress Committee session is on January 17 and is certain to see party workers clamour for formally naming Rahul Gandhi the PM candidate. Another PM might have cavilled at being undermined when he holds India’s most important job. Singh, however, had earlier endorsed Gandhi as PM and added, for good measure, that he would be happy to serve under him.

On Monday, party senior and finance minister P Chidambaram suggested the Congress project its PM candidate for the coming general elections.

“In my view, the party (Congress) should project a person as the leader of the party who will become prime minister if the party forms the government. That is my view but it is for the party to decide,” he told a television channel. Party chief Sonia Gandhi, on the day of the recent assembly poll results, had said the party would announce its PM candidate at an appropriate time.

Given how little Manmohan Singh speaks to the press, the announcement of a press conference was seen as so unusual that it sparked improbable rumours that he might be announcing his resignation. However, the Prime Minister's Office on Tuesday dismissed as speculation the reports suggesting that Singh might quit ahead of the Lok Sabha polls in 2014. The UPA government has been facing criticism on account of “policy paralysis”, corruption, price rise and other issues. Singh is expected to be posed questions on all these issues at the conference.

Lately, he has been meeting criticism of his government gently but robustly. At the Hindustan Times summit in the first week of October, he urged India not to judge the 10-year regime too harshly.

Conceding mistakes might have been made, Singh said: “Any sudden acceleration of growth, as we saw in the period 2004-08, creates imbalances that can contribute to inflation. Such growth can also create opportunities for personal enrichment and that distorts governance and creates social resentment. Rising economic growth has helped to liberate millions of Indians from chronic poverty, reducing the incidence of poverty but it has also widened social and economic inequalities. Our strategy of inclusive growth has sought to blunt the edge of such disparities.”

February 1, 2006

In his first interaction with journalists, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had to defend himself from the Oppositions’ criticism which described him as the “weakest” prime minister ever. Singh had then said, “The proof of the pudding is in the eating. I have not done anything to deserve such epithets. I should be judged not by what Mr [L K] Advani says but what I do.”

Who is more powerful, the Prime Minister’s Office or the Congress President’s office, was the other issue on which journalists sough Singh’s clarification. The PM had said Sonia Gandhi had an influence on his government. This, he had added, was not a matter of weakness but a source of strength for him and his government.

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Hi Everyone !!! Winston Churchill once said "when ever we leave India, It would be ruled by the goons" and looking at present condition of the country and deeds of the political class. The statement is proved true even after 67 years after gaining independence. When an officer halts illegal activity then the ruling class dismisses the officer and dictates to ruling party that if they say anything against the decision then the support of their MP's in Parliament would be taken back. Every person in power rules their people rather then administering efficiently for their upliftment. PreIndependence era was 100 times better wrto law and order, implementation of laws and another merit about British era was that we were much better placed in transport sector in pre independence era, train journey from Ambala cantt to Amritsar took 4 hrs then and it still takes 4 hrs in superfast class of trains....isn't it shameful. In India a major portion of the votes which are given is often purchased by the candidates(who have deep pockets filled with money which they gulped in their last term). Majority of the people put votes by keeping their castes in mind and making as goon win elections(from their own cast), rather then choosing a candidate with clean image. Some percentage of Indian voters are really really foolish(according to me) as we can clearly see around 30 percent of criminals representing people, These criminals would never ever be convicted because as they say "supremacy of parliament should be maintained" and they are above the law. This bloody notion that Parliament is above all other institutions(even the constitution) is helping in shielding the criminals/corrupt people who have reached there by hook/crook and muscle power. The whole bloody system is corrupt, people are sleeping, Political class is doing nothing for country as various initiatives which were good for country like "Hum do hamare do" for controlling population is no more advertised and is informally taken back by the government with the sole reason being that if population is controlled and people start studying till the level when they can understand things good for country then they would root out the present political class, So why hit your own feet with axe. When Politicians follow approach of "Divide and Rule" over people rather then unite them together for the country, Looks like the political class have put country up for sale, everything can be purchased here votes, goons, riots, disharmony, and we are thaught that britishers played "Divide and Rule". I still think that if Britain didn't go bankrupt after second world war then they would have administered us for a longer duration and we would have been technologically ahead by atleast ten years as of now. I still firmly believe this country needs a revolution against corrupt political class, so that we can maintain the rich history we possesed, rather then saying britishers took it all away, whereas actually it's the political class which is taking it all away from the country and selling the country to foreign hands. I somwtimes wonder about why in USA the party which wins the election and forms government is termed as 'Administration' whereas in India we are 'ruled' by the politicians which we elect. God save this country because if some offcial wants to do right he/she is transferred/suspended (for example Ashok Khemka and Durga nagpal), there would be many others which the media class is not paid for to highlight. GOD SAVE THIS COUNTRY from going to the gallows!! JAI HIND!!

manmohan singh achievements