MMS in the wrong chair

Last week was arguably one of the most difficult for Manmohan Singh (henceforth MMS). Two ministers had to resign, and one big question surfaced: how is the Prime Minister to be assessed now? It’s always better to go back a bit while assessing public figures. For MMS, let’s go back to reforms, of which he’s thought to be the architect. But, truly speaking, he wasn’t. By September 1990, the reform blueprint was in place and would have been implemented, regardless of who was the finance minister. Reforms were pushed by PV Narasimha Rao.

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