The Leader of Opposition, L.K. Advani has chosen to use all manner of abusive objectives to describe my performance. He has described me as the weakest Prime Minister, a nikamma PM, and of having devalued the office of PM. To fulfill his ambitions, he has made at least three attempts to topple our government. But on each occasion his astrologers have misled him. This pattern, I am sure, will be repeated today. At his ripe old age, I do not expect Advani to change his thinking. But for his sake and India’s sake, I urge him at least to change his astrologers so that he gets more accurate predictions of things to come.
As for Advani’s various charges, I do not wish to waste the time of the House in rebutting them. All I can say is that before leveling charges of incompetence on others, Advani should do some introspection. Can our nation forgive a Home Minister who slept when the terrorists were knocking at the doors of our Parliament? Can our nation forgive a person who single handedly provided the inspiration for the destruction of the Babri Masjid with all the terrible consequences that followed? To atone for his sins, he suddenly decided to visit Pakistan and there he discovered new virtues in Mohammed Ali Jinnah. Alas, his own party and his mentors in the RSS disowned him on this issue. Can our nation approve the conduct of a Home Minister who was sleeping while Gujarat was burning leading to the loss of thousands of innocent lives? Our friends in the Left Front should ponder over the company they are forced to keep because of miscalculations by their General Secretary.
As for my conduct, it is for this august House and the people of India to judge. All I can say is that in all these years that I have been in office, whether as Finance Minister or Prime Minister, I have felt it as a sacred obligation to use the levers of power as a societal trust to be used for transforming our economy and polity, so that we can get rid of poverty, ignorance and disease which still afflict millions of our people. This is a long and arduous journey. But every step taken in this direction can make a difference. And that is what we have sought to do in the last four years. How far we have succeeded is something I leave to the judgement of the people of India.
When I look at the composition of the opportunistic group opposed to us, it is clear to me that the clash today is between two alternative visions of India’s future. The one vision represented by the UPA and our allies seeks to project India as a self confident and united nation moving forward to gain its rightful place in the comity of nations, making full use of the opportunities offered by a globalised world, operating on the frontiers of modern science and technology and using modern science and technology as important instruments of national economic and social development. The opposite vision is of a motley crowd opposed to us who have come together to share the spoils of office to promote their sectional, sectarian and parochial interests. Our Left colleagues should tell us whether L.K. Advani is acceptable to them as a Prime Ministerial candidate. L.K. Advani should enlighten us if he will step aside as Prime Ministerial candidate of the opposition in favour of the choice of UNPA. They should take the country into confidence on this important issue.
I have already stated in my opening remarks that the House has been dragged into this debate unnecessarily. I wish our attention had not been diverted from some priority areas of national concern. These priorities are :
(i) Tackling the imported inflation caused by steep increase in oil prices. Our effort is to control inflation without hurting the rate of growth and employment.
(ii) To revitalize agriculture. We have decisively reversed the declining trend of investment and resource flow in agriculture. The Finance Minister has dealt with the measures we have taken in this regard. We have achieved a record foodgrain production of 231 million tones. But we need to redouble our efforts to improve agricultural productivity.
(iii) To improve the effectiveness of our flagship pro poor programmes such as National Rural Employment Programme, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Nation-wide Mid day meal programme, Bharat Nirman to improve the quality of rural infrastructure of roads, electricity, safe drinking water, sanitation, irrigation, National Rural Health Mission and the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. These programmes are yielding solid results. But a great deal more needs to be done to improve the quality of implementation.
(iv) We have initiated a major thrust in expanding higher education. The objective is to expand the gross enrolment ratio in higher education from 11.6 per cent to 15 per cent by the end of the 11th Plan and to 21% by the end of 12th Plan. To meet these goals, we have an ambitious programme which seeks to create 30 new universities, of which 14 will be world class, 8 new IITs, 7 new IIMs, 20 new IIITs, 5 new IISERs, 2 Schools of planning and Architecture, 10 NITs, 373 new degree colleges and 1000 new polytechnics. And these are not just plans. Three new IISERs are already operational and the remaining two will become operational from the 2008-09 academic session. Two SPAs will be starting this year. Six of the new IITs start their classes this year. The establishment of the new universities is at an advanced stage of planning.
(v) A nation wide Skill Development Programme and the enactment of the Right to Education Act,
(vi) Approval by Parliament of the new Rehabilitation and Resettlement policy and enactment of legislation to provide social security benefits to workers in the unorganized sector.
(vii) The new 15 Point Programme for Minorities, the effective implementation of empowerment programmes for the scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, paying particular emphasis on implementation of Land Rights for the tribals.
(viii) Equally important is the effective implementation of the Right to Information Act to impart utmost transparency to processes of governance. The Administrative Reforms Commission has made valuable suggestions to streamline the functioning of our public administration.
(ix) To deal firmly with terrorist elements, left wing extremism and communal elements that are attempting to undermine the security and stability of the country. We have been and will continue to vigorously pursue investigations in the major terrorist incidents that have taken place. Charge-sheets have been filed in almost all the cases. Our intelligence agencies and security forces are doing an excellent job in very difficult circumstances. They need our full support. We will take all possible steps to streamline their functioning and strengthen their effectiveness.
Considerable work has been done in all these areas but debates like the one we are having detract our attention from attending to these essential programmes and remaining items on our agenda. All the same, we will redouble our efforts to attend to these areas of priority concerns.
I say in all sincerity that this session and debate was unnecessary because I have said on several occasions that our nuclear agreement after being endorsed by the IAEA and the Nuclear Suppliers Group would be submitted to this august House for expressing its view. All I had asked our Left colleagues was : please allow us to go through the negotiating process and I will come to Parliament before operationalising the nuclear agreement. This simple courtesy which is essential for orderly functioning of any Government worth the name, particularly with regard to the conduct of foreign policy, they were not willing to grant me. They wanted a veto over every single step of negotiations which is not acceptable. They wanted me to behave as their bonded slave. The nuclear agreement may not have been mentioned in the Common Minimum Programme. However, there was an explicit mention of the need to develop closer relations with the USA but without sacrificing our independent foreign policy. The Congress Election Manifesto had explicitly referred to the need for strategic engagement with the USA and other great powers such as Russia.
In 1991, while presenting the Budget for 1991-92, as Finance Minister, I had stated : No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come. I had then suggested to this august House that the emergence of India as a major global power was an idea whose time had come.
Carrying forward the process started by Shri Rajiv Gandhi of preparing India for the 21st century, I outlined a far reaching programme of economic reform whose fruits are now visible to every objective person. Both the Left and the BJP had then opposed the reform. Both had said we had mortgaged the economy to America and that we would bring back the East India Company. Subsequently both these parties have had a hand at running the Government. None of these parties have reversed the direction of economic policy laid down by the Congress Party in 1991. The moral of the story is that political parties should be judged not by what they say while in opposition but by what they do when entrusted with the responsibilities of power.
I am convinced that despite their opportunistic opposition to the nuclear agreement, history will compliment the UPA Government for having taken another giant step forward to lead India to become a major power centre of the evolving global economy. Jawaharlal Nehru’s vision of using atomic energy as a major instrument of development will become a living reality.
What is the nuclear agreement about? It is all about widening our development options, promoting energy security in a manner which will not hurt our precious environment and which will not contribute to pollution and global warming.
India needs to grow at the rate of at least ten per cent per annum to get rid of chronic poverty, ignorance and disease which still afflict millions of our people. A basic requirement for achieving this order of growth is the availability of energy, particularly electricity. We need increasing quantities of electricity to support our agriculture, industry and to give comfort to our householders. The generation of electricity has to grow at an annual rate of 8 to 10 per cent.
Now, hydro-carbons are one source of generating power and for meeting our energy requirements. But our production of hydro-carbons both of oil and gas is far short of our growing requirements. We are heavily dependent on imports. We all know the uncertainty of supplies and of prices of imported hydro-carbons.
We have to diversify our sources of energy supply.
We have large reserves of coal but even these are inadequate to meet all our needs by 2050. But more use of coal will have an adverse impact on pollution and climate. We can develop hydro-power and we must. But many of these projects hurt the environment and displace large number of people. We must develop renewable sources of energy particularly solar energy. But we must also make full use of atomic energy which is a clean environment friendly source of energy. All over the world, there is growing realization of the importance of atomic energy to meet the challenge of energy security and climate change.
India’s atomic scientists and technologists are world class. They have developed nuclear energy capacities despite heavy odds. But there are handicaps which have adversely affected our atomic energy programme. First of all, we have inadequate production of uranium. Second, the quality of our uranium resources is not comparable to those of other producers.Third, after the Pokharan nuclear test of 1974 and 1998 the outside world has imposed embargo on trade with India in nuclear materials, nuclear equipment and nuclear technology. As a result, our nuclear energy programme has suffered. Some twenty years ago, the Atomic Energy Commission had laid down a target of 10000 MW of electricity generation by the end of the twentieth century. Today, in 2008 our capacity is about 4000 MW and due to shortage of uranium many of these plants are operating at much below their capacity.
The nuclear agreement that we wish to negotiate will end India’s nuclear isolation, nuclear apartheid and enable us to take advantage of international trade in nuclear materials, technologies and equipment. It will open up new opportunities for trade in dual use high technologies opening up new pathways to accelerate industrialization of our country. Given the excellent quality of our nuclear scientists and technologists, I have reasons to believe that in a reasonably short period of time, India would emerge as an important exporter of nuclear technologies, and equipment for civilian purposes.
When I say this I am reminded of the visionary leadership of Rajiv Gandhi who was a strong champion of computerization and use of information technologies for nation building. At that time, many people laughed at this idea. Today, information technology and software is a sun-rise industry with an annual turnover soon approaching 50 billion US dollars. I venture to think that our atomic energy industry will play a similar role in the transformation of India’s economy.
The essence of the matter is that the agreements that we negotiate with USA, Russia, France and other nuclear countries will enable us to enter into international trade for civilian use without any interference with our strategic nuclear programme. The strategic programme will continue to be developed at an autonomous pace determined solely by our own security perceptions. We have not and we will not accept any outside interference or monitoring or supervision of our strategic programme. Our strategic autonomy will never be compromised. We are willing to look at possible amendments to our Atomic Energy Act to reinforce our solemn commitment that our strategic autonomy will never be compromised.
I confirm that there is nothing in these agreements which prevents us from further nuclear tests if warranted by our national security concerns. All that we are committed to is a voluntary moratorium on further testing. Thus the nuclear agreements will not in any way affect our strategic autonomy. The cooperation that the international community is now willing to extend to us for trade in nuclear materials, technologies and equipment for civilian use will be available to us without signing the NPT or the CTBT.
This I believe is a measure of the respect that the world at large has for India, its people and their capabilities and our prospects to emerge as a major engine of growth for the world economy. I have often said that today there are no international constraints on India’s development. The world marvels at our ability to seek our social and economic salvation in the framework of a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law and respect for fundamental human freedoms. The world wants India to succeed. The obstacles we face are at home, particularly in our processes of domestic governance.
I wish to remind the House that in 1998 when the Pokharan II tests were undertaken, the Group of Eight leading developed countries had passed a harsh resolution condemning India and called upon India to sign the NPT and CTBT. Today, at the Hokkaido meeting of the G-8 held recently in Japan, the Chairman’s summary has welcomed cooperation in civilian nuclear energy between India and the international community. This is a measure of the sea change in the perceptions of the international community our trading with India for civilian nuclear energy purposes that has come about in less than ten years.
Our critics falsely accuse us, that in signing these agreements, we have surrendered the independence of foreign policy and made it subservient to US interests. In this context, I wish to point out that the cooperation in civil nuclear matters that we seek is not confined to the USA. Change in the NSG guidelines would be a passport to trade with 45 members of the Nuclear Supplier Group which includes Russia, France, and many other countries.
We appreciate the fact that the US has taken the lead in promoting cooperation with India for nuclear energy for civilian use. Without US initiative, India’s case for approval by the IAEA or the Nuclear Suppliers Group would not have moved forward.
But this does not mean that there is any explicit or implicit constraint on India to pursue an independent foreign policy determined by our own perceptions of our enlightened national interest. Some people are spreading the rumours that there are some secret or hidden agreements over and above the documents made public. I wish to state categorically that there are no secret or hidden documents other than the 123 agreement, the Separation Plan and the draft of the safeguard agreement with the IAEA. It has also been alleged that the Hyde Act will affect India’s ability to pursue an independent foreign policy. The Hyde Act does exist and it provides the US administration the authorization to enter into civil nuclear cooperation with India without insistence on full scope safeguards and without signing of the NPT. There are some prescriptive clauses but they cannot and they will not be allowed to affect in any way the conduct of our foreign policy. Our commitment is to what has been agreed in the 123 Agreement. There is nothing in this Agreement which will affect our strategic autonomy or our ability to pursue an independent foreign policy. I state categorically that our foreign policy, will at all times be determined by our own assessment of our national interest. This has been true in the past and will be true in future regarding our relations with big powers as well as with our neighbours in West Asia, notably Iran, Iraq, Palestine and the Gulf countries.
We have differed with the USA on their intervention in Iraq. I had explicitly stated at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington DC in July 2005 that intervention in Iraq was a big mistake. With regard to Iran, our advice has been in favour of moderation and we would like that the issues relating to Iran’s nuclear programme which have emerged should be resolved through dialogue and discussions in the framework of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
I should also inform the House that our relations with the Arab world are very good. Two years ago, His Majesty, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia was the Chief Guest at our Republic Day. More recently, we have played host to the President of Iran, President of Syria, the King of Jordan, the Emir of Qatar and the Emir of Kuwait. With all these countries we have historic civilisational and cultural links which we are keen to further develop to our mutual benefit. Today, we have strategic relationship with all major powers including USA, Russia, France, UK, Germany, Japan, China, Brazil, Nigeria and South Africa. We are Forging new partnerships with countries of East Asia, South East Asia and Africa.
CONCLUSION
The Management and governance of the world’s largest, most diverse and most vibrant democracy is the greatest challenge any person can be entrusted with, in this world. It has been my good fortune that I was entrusted with this challenge over four years ago. I thank with all sincerity the Chairperson of the UPA, the leaders of the Constituent Parties of the UPA and every member of my Party for the faith and trust they reposed in me. I once again recall with gratitude the guidance and support I have received from Jyoti Basu and Sardar Harkishen Singh Surjeet.
I have often said that I am a politician by accident. I have held many diverse responsibilities. I have been a teacher, I have been an official of the Government of India, I have been a member of this greatest of Parliaments, but I have never forgotten my life as a young boy in a distant village.
Every day that I have been Prime Minister of India I have tried to remember that the first ten years of my life were spent in a village with no drinking water supply, no electricity, no hospital, no roads and nothing that we today associate with modern living. I had to walk miles to school, I had to study in the dim light of a kerosene oil lamp. This nation gave me the opportunity to ensure that such would not be the life of our children in the foreseeable future.
Sir, my conscience is clear that on every day that I have occupied this high office, I have tried to fulfill the dream of that young boy from that distant village.
The greatness of democracy is that we are all birds of passage! We are here today, gone tomorrow! But in the brief time that the people of India entrust us with this responsibility, it is our duty to be honest and sincere in the discharge of these responsibilities. As it is said in our sacred texts, we are responsible for our actions and we must act without coveting the rewards of such action. Whatever I have done in this high office I have done so with a clear conscience and the best interests of my country and our people at heart. I have no other claims to make.
Singh is King … Jai Manmohan Singh! Our country deserved this N-deal to go through, despite lot of political hara-kiri. Mr. Manmohan singh definitely is strongest PM in the history of India in recent times. Thank you Prime minister, we are proud of you.
PS: Crossposting
Our Raja of Ridicule would have solely focussed on bribery allegations if someone other than Congress was in power; lately, he’s been working extra hard to make MMS look like a great visionary. This speech is just a political statement that tries to give credit to Rajiv Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru and all those people from that great family without whom we would have been condemned to eternal doom.
Alas, the sad day has come. Churmuri has officially become the congress mouthpiece. KP in line for spokesperson post ?
Memorable Quotes on TV, Version 1.03: (based on Live TV Coverage Nationwide)
Manmohan Singh: “Never in the history of our parliament has such a shameful and revolting scandal unfolded” (Comment: When has he ever been in real control or overruled the Italian Aunty? BTW, Singh’s immediate family is ‘well settled’ in the US)
Amar Singh: “Show me the proof. Is there any evidence from which bank I have withdrawn the money? Who had given the money? Why was police not called when the incident happened.” (Comment: Singh is now the real King.)
Mayawati: “Samajwadi Party distributed Rs 500 crores last night to mobilise support for the government” (Comment: Dalit Queen is the next PM in waiting. That old Jinnah…err..Advani is now a well recognised loser)
Rahul Bajaj: I am an independent and I don’t believe any money was paid to anyone. (Comment: Is he is the most self centred businessman politician in India…has he replaced Vijay Mallya)
Rahul Gandhi: ”Not as a member of a political party but as an Indian, pls can you all clap for my speech” (Comment: Based in his second ever live performance, sadly the Gandhi scion is still a rookie and retarded)
Pappu Yadav (Clown-Crook #1 Lalu Prasad’s party colleague). “I was released from jail to vote in Parliament, but this BJP leader Vijay Kumar Malhotra tries to lure me ” (Comment: Another Tihar jailed MP makes millions while on bail, Mohammad Shahabuddin supports him and later offers some personal gratitude to Sonia while live on TV)
P Chidambaram : ”I don’t want to envy China. I want to emulate China” (Comment: This shameless Harvard educated, white lungi clad, pure MP is currently grooming his stock trader son for the next MP ticket. The poor intellect’s family were semi-royal feudal overlords of several villages in Tamil Nadu)
Chiranjeevi: “Centre and all Govts are all corrupt. Lets forget the Cong-I and Delhi. We are the only alternative to the Kamma-Reddy dominance in AP” (Comment: The raising star is smart-wise and will seriously trouble Naidu’s Maya)
Your highlighting of specific words of the speech above gives an idea of your loyalties :-)
One thing that strikes (from the speech) is that while he spewed venom on Advani (who naively praised Manmohan recently in his book) he went extremely soft on left.. (Karat is the only bad guy according to him..).. that indicates the future – especially post poll alliances in 2009!!
BTW: Will this nation ever forgive a person who tied up with a party that killed 3000 of his own community…?
Yes.. this country deserves him …!
So many MPs cast paper ballots today..they did not to push or want to push a simple red or green button….almost 50!…Well, it is so obvious that they were all after the BIG money (balance payment after the advance) rather than whatever is this so called surrendering to the US, some nuclear deal and all that.
By siding with the Left on this trust vote (instead of maybe abstaining), the BJP has sort of given up the momentum of winning the state assembly elections.
Still.. 3 cheers for Mannu Chacha!
BJP lost a golden opportunity .They sidelined with Left and BSP. They should have boycotten the trust vote rather than acting as the B-team of Communist (Chinese) Party of India. This will definitely loose a lot of middle class votes from BJP. CPM and BSP did this for Muslim votes .Also CPM has vested interests to support chinese policies. We need strong allies and can’t be isolated from the whole world like Iran.
All in all it was a nice kick in the Prakash Karat’s b##@s…OUCH that hurts. Serves him well. He has failed his nation China and his chinese masters will be mighty pissed off. And where is that other village idiot Sitaram Yechuri. Last heard he was holidaying in London.
Because of this failure the commies will not only have to sing for their supper but also dance for it henceforth.
:)
All that MMS is saying is- ‘ up yours pals’
Finance minister,during discussion, brought out facts and figures about nuclear energy in China. He chided the communists’ obsession with China by saying “some people” always want India to be less developed vis-a-vis china. China is going all out at developing Nuclear energy by building mega projects. I want to ask the communists if nuclear energy is good for China (their mentors) why not for India? Why do communists want India not to prosper?
The PM should have been more gracious in victory. Secondly, like most politicians he too has selective amenesia, he forgets the role of his party in the massacre of sikhs yet remembers Gujarat but not Godhra!!
It was the Congress who started the legacy of corruption in politics and it continues with the policy!! What a hollow victory Mr. PM!
I would like the PM to clarify: Akali Party is not considered communal even tho they are for the sikhs and by the sikhs; IUML the aggressive Indian counterpart of the Muslim League (who divided India) is for the muslims, by the muslims and cannot stand anything hindu and whose politics are fanatical and biased.
Yet the PMs party does not call them communal. Double standard, Mr. Prime Minister!??
Manmohan Singh, looks like you can play politics with the best (worst?) of them. Good job!
Oh boy, Did Mannu bhai whip the hind of the Iron man; guess it smarts coming from a perceived weak softie ooh yeah!! it does smart.
Mannu Bhai u r soo kewl!!!!!
If we keep aside the politics (opposition is supposed to disagree and Congress party would not have done any differently including PM), ideologies (Communist hates the US more than then they hate BJP), vieing for power and monetizing political power (Sibu Soren, Ajit Singh, Deve Gowda) etc there are many things in PM’s speech for people like us to appreciate.
He has clearly brought out the energy crisis issue. We are running out of even coal which is not known and contrary is what we are led to believe. Our oil and gas dependence is well known. PM failed to make the point that renewables are not contributing much. I do not know why he did it. May be he did not want to discourage the renewable lobby.
PM made the categorical point that there are no hidden agendas.
PM made the point that once the deal is signed we need not depend upon the US only and we can continue to do business with Russia, France, Japan etc. This has been ignored by the opposition.
One point made repeatedly of India’s independent foreign policy has also been answered. Hyde act does not bind India and this has been made by UPA in the past and was made again.
Though UPA and PM in particular has won this important political battle, all political parties and India has lost. This has shown that we as a nation have lost all moral and ethical values. For that the real culprits are we the people who have elected these jokers.
So, what about these?
On terror: 3674 lives lost so far, innocent – each one of them http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Indias_terror_death_toll_second_only_to_Iraq/articleshow/2312796.cms
On NREGS: I dont need to tell you the level of corruption
On Highways, on SEZs.
Suggest you read this piece http://wordlyaffair.wordpress.com/2008/05/26/my-toast-in-the-upa-party/
to add to BVS Note
Final outcome of the trust-vote and also nucl-deal is OK, no issues on that. But, the gentleman (MMS) has gone bit too far in writing this note… Because,
– What this gentleman(MMS) has done to reduce corruption starting from his door-step. Very marginal improvement on this front (say 1% reduction) would contribute much more to country’s development than this Nucl-deal. HE HAS DONE NOTHING. Finally, he had to win midst of corruption which was never seen before in parliment (not only Indian, anywhere in the world).
– Why there is no info on energy requirement (today, tomorrow and in next five years), energy being produced (coal, Nucl, Hydro, renewable etc.) and projects under progress (which means, they will produce in near-term)? What is the % of energy we are getting from Nucl. today and what will change due to this deal over a period of 10 years? ARE THERE NO OTHER CHEAPER, BETTER options for energy? 1-unit energy saved is 1-unit energy produced. Instead of all these, he kept brabbling over Advani’s comments!!!!
– With all his economic intelligence, why he could not get a remotest clue about current mess we are in? Why he could not take single step to better the situation? Does he not understand basics of oil-economy, subsidy (to whom??!!!) etc. He seem to be overly arrogant and confident about his intelligence and also Nehru/Gandhi family contribution.
Brilliant speech. One of the best in recent times. I particularly liked the conclusion. Kudos to his speech writer. A shame that he wasn’t allowed to make such a speech in the parliament.
Raghu, highlighting has nothing to do with bias. Churumuri has a (strange, in my opinion) policy of highlighting all the names. So if they are writing about Saraswathi Puram, for example, they will highlight the first part of the name. Makes for terrible reading, but hey, it is their policy.
Rajeev, Jawahar all ok. But what about Vajapayee – even after rahul’s largesse ?
MMS is trying to deflect Inflation,Corruption and Oil crisis with Nuclear deal. In the short run he has had a victory albeit through covert means. If his deal was the principle approach then he should not have gone about shaping the Nation’s destiny by corrupting the MP’s.
It is still a narrow margin through which the UPA has won and it still does not represent the mindset of the entire cross section of the Indian Populace. CIA agents could have infiltrated the parliaments to get their view point across during crisis. The source of funding the corruption is yet to be established.
MMS will go down in history as a Corrupt PM after his previous Boss Narasimha Rao. Rao has handed over the baton of Corruption to MMS to carry on his legacy.
Fantastic Speech.
MMS has emergest as the STRONGEST Prime Minister ever in the history of India.
As a communication professional, i admire the contents in the speech…the intent of PM, honesty of purpose, facts, issues covered are all excellent..in all, a brilliant and very compelling speech
Tarlemaga
No one remembers PV narshima rao for his bribery case with JMM.every one remembers him as a prime minister who was bold enough to liberalise the country which will rememberd for long.
Mammohan singh – You are the one of the best prime minister India has ever seen.There is no act equivalent to RTA which opens the dark face of corruption.
Country will remember you for your visionary works like Liberalisation,RTA and nuclear deal..
kudos to singh.
singh is king.
>> When I look at the composition of the opportunistic group opposed to us
he should look at the composition of the opportunistic group lined behind him.
bottomline – manmohan singh did not matter for even delhi municipal elections before this vote. manmohan singh does not matter for even delhi municipal elections after this vote. people browsing the net can shower all praises and they wont vote.
anonymous
Niether did ramakrishna hegde got a single vote when he became chief minister.
Why are you bothered about manmohan singh vote fetching power?That is congress members headache.Or you a congress party worker?
Whatever has been achieved, Dr. Singh has lost a great deal of reputation!
Hey Lokparitran or any of its pragmatic competitors, why not use these chaotic times to gain some base for you?
One MP seat at least… sigh!
Good–the Advani bit –about astrologers did not seem like Manmohanomics…but I suppose with Advani’s behaviour getting more and more perplexing, everyone is stepping out of line to react.
It would have been good if some basics about nuclear energy across the world has been touched upon–the costs, the impact on global warming, the risks and rewards and of course the safeguards. But I guess we have to wait for THAT speech awhile. I liked the reference to his childhood too. A flash of sincerity there — hope the lights come on in every village soon –solar and wind power has not yet done it, perhaps fuel cells can help.
Manmohansingh,Chidambaram, Pranabh Mukherjee…all their eloquent speeches about reforms,ideologies, etc etc OK What about the plight of common man? What about inflation? Spiralling prices? You may devote your attention to speeches, think of the common man…..
Thoo baDi makLu! “clean” nuclear energy or smoky coal, they asked!
Madame Manorama even gave that as an alibi for switching allegiance!
Why has the central govt.authorised the setting up of a thermal power plant in Chamalapura, Heggadadevanakote Taluk, Mysore District!?
To rein in Mr. Siddaramaiah!? WTF!
BJP, if you dare to continue with this project, you will stand to lose the Mysore parliament seat inspite of good efforts made by your MP to oppose the plant!
Reads like an Indian Express editorial. So Manmohan Singh can give gaalis as well as editors do.
Our Prime Minister, “A Politician by Accident” has no vote when his government is at stake.
He wrotes that he is from Assam and gets elected to Rajya Sabha and completes full term.
He finds no fault in getting support from jail-birds.
He sees no wrong in holding information [Uranium reserves, Sending draft to IAEA,…]
He would loose sleep, over an overseas arrest, but not over killings in his homeland.
He is helpless, voiceless and powerless to decide on anything governance, Inflation, Law and Order, Transparency, …………
He’s no more white as Lily.
TSR in Prajavani’s CHHubana used to write sentences like “ninage congres maadi bidteeni”, meaning I’ll cheat you.
Dr Singh, too is a professional Congress politician, who is fit to head “Gang of Delhi”, Laalu, [T R] Baalu….and others,
another chaalu Singh guy [Amar] just joined them. ….
Party continues, Hit the floor….
“Rock and roll Soniye, dole man tere liye”…………
Shame on people saying churmuri has become a congress mouthpiece,these sick BJP wallas spewing their venom should also know that few weeks back yeddi and cheddi did the same thing when they bought congress and jds MLA’s.Stop acting like little kids and move along.
Seems like what goes around comes around.
E-kaaldalli devru yella kanmundhe ne torisuthhane.
A good speech by MMS with obligatory references to Rajiv Gandhi and rest of cOngress ethos shit! I am happy to see Oddvani aka Codvani aka Badvani cut to size! Welcome Nuclear Bijlee!!
“He should change his astrologers,”…crack was sublime:) MMS you rock man! You have shown to be the man who wears knickers in the family besides Sonia!
Every day that I have been Prime Minister of India I have tried to remember that the first ten years of my life were spent in a village with no drinking water supply, no electricity, no hospital, no roads and nothing that we today associate with modern living. I had to walk miles to school, I had to study in the dim light of a kerosene oil lamp. This nation gave me the opportunity to ensure that such would not be the life of our children in the foreseeable future.
…I have tried to fulfill the dream of that young boy from that distant village.
The greatness of democracy is that we are all birds of passage! We are here today, gone tomorrow! But in the brief time that the people of India entrust us with this responsibility, it is our duty to be honest and sincere in the discharge of these responsibilities. As it is said in our sacred texts, we are responsible for our actions and we must act without coveting the rewards of such action.
If any politician lives by these ideals and memories, I am willing to forgive him or her for any amount of cynicism. That would be my black cat, white cat moment.
WTF is this news I’m reading about Chamalapura. Disgrace. N-Deal and now Coal, thermal stuffs too huh ?
Shame on center for approving it. BJP, please act smart else you will lose the Mysore loka-sabha seat as well. As an Mysorean I can gaurantee that we will take fights to every streets.
http://www.starofmysore.com/main.asp?type=news&item=17448
Shame on Ambani, Tatas and other bunch of jokers.
As for Manorama, you will surely lose the Udupi LokaSabha, no matter if you contest it or one of your kin contests. Shame on you Manorama. Udupige enu maaDaDe you have guts to abstain without any specific reason. Family politics jaasti maadbeda. As a native of Udupi, you will surely forfeit ur deposit in the region.
Finally, some prgamatic youth organisations and youth out there why not take cue from Swami Vivekananda’s message – “Arise, Awake! And stop not until the goal is reached”. India needs your help. Let us all cleanse India and this bloody politics full of singhs, prasads, sickularists, communalists. Let us start the “Corruption Hatao” movement.
Manmohan Singh combines in him a bureacrat and a politician. The history in Inidis shows that a bureaucrat always dances to the tune of the politician