The buck stops with the PM

The foreign hand has been replaced by coalition compulsions as the omnibus explanation for government failure. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh repeated the old saw over the weekend, telling reporters that his government has been unable to move ahead with economic reforms because he runs a complicated coalition government. As an explanation, this is on the same wavelength as Jayanthi Natarajan’s astonishing claim in November 2010 that former telecom minister A. Raja could not be kept in check because of coalition dharma. Such explanations absolve the Congress of all responsibility.

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