Is Manmohan Singh Clean?

[proactive]

Yes, it was at the UN. Don't forget that he has never taken action against the MPs from his party who have been accused of taking part in the Sikh genocide such as Tytler. Rather than taking action he made Tytler into a minister in his government. But according to people like Hsisingh we shouldn't criticise him because he created an economic miracle in India!

[DashingSingh]

Completly agree with Proactive. Moreover Manmohan Singh's reforms were eyewash . I am talking about Libralization and Globalisation which are now exposed world-wide as another name for Re-Colonization.

Manmohan Singh was pushed by World Bank & IMF for the post of Finance Minister as he was a former employee of World Bank/ IMF.

To understand activities of Malicious organisation named "World Bank" and there are loads of videos on youtube like

Manmohan Singh always act like Devil's Advocate be it Criminal Issue of 84 Genocide or Rampant Corruption of people from his party like A Raja.

Manmohan Singh is always with the Criminal instead of Victim.

[hsinghGB]

Behind 'Rising India' lies the surrender of national dignity

From India's prime minister down, the rotten state of the world's largest democracy has been exposed for all to see

Pankaj Mishra

The Guardian, Tuesday 5 April 2011

Food prices become intolerable for the poor. Protests against corruption paralyse the national parliament for weeks on end. Then a series of American diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks exposes a brazenly mendacious and venal ruling class; the head of government adored by foreign business people and journalists loses his moral authority, turning into a lame duck.

This sounds like Tunisia or Egypt before their uprisings, countries long deprived of representative politics and pillaged by the local agents of neoliberal capitalism. But it is India, where in recent days WikiLeaks has highlighted how national democratic institutions are no defence against the rapacity and selfishness of globalised elites.

Most of the cables – being published by the Hindu, offer nothing new to those who haven't drunk the "Rising India" Kool-Aid vended by business people, politicians and their journalist groupies. The evidence of economic liberalisation providing cover for a wholesale plunder of the country's resources has been steadily mounting over recent months. The loss in particular of a staggering $39bn in the government's sale of the telecom spectrum has alerted many Indians to the corrupt nexuses between corporate and political power.

Even the western financial press, unwaveringly gung-ho about the money to be made in India, is getting restless. Early this year, the Economist asked: "Is Indian capitalism becoming oligarchic?" – a question to which the only correct response is "Hell-ooo". Recently in the Financial Times' Indian business dynasties have been described as "robber barons".

The intimate details about politicians revealed by WikiLeaks still leave you speechless. What can one say about the former cabinet minister, a fervent spokesman for low-caste Hindus, who demanded a large bribe from Dow Chemical Company, which is being helped by senior American officials to overcome its association with the gas leak at the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal that in 1984 killed and maimed tens of thousands of Indians?

Indeed, the cables reveal US business and officials to be as embedded in India's politics as they are in Pakistan's. In 2008, the aide to an old courtier of the Nehru-Gandhi family showed a US diplomat two chests containing $25m in cash – money to bribe members of parliament into voting for an India-US nuclear deal, itself a prelude to massive US arms sales to India. Publicly opposed to the nuclear deal, the leaders of the Hindu nationalist BJP are at pains to reassure American diplomats of their pro-US credentials, even dissing their murderous Hindu nationalism as opportunistic, a mere "talking point".

The cables offer many such instances of the ideological deceptions practised by the purveyors of "Rising India". Virtually all economic growth of recent years, a senior politician admits, is concentrated in the four southern states, two western states (Gujarat and Maharashtra) and "within 100km of Delhi". But why worry? He has nieces and sisters living in the US, and "five homes to visit between DC and New York". As for the entry of retailers like Walmart into India, oh, that "should not seriously hurt the mom and pop stores that form a BJP constituency".

Not surprisingly, the Americans have developed contempt for such representatives of the world's largest democracy, who seem to validate Mahatma Gandhi's extreme denunciations of parliament as a "prostitute". Hillary Clinton gets right to the point in a cabled inquiry about Pranab Mukherjee, the finance minister widely tipped as India's next PM: "To which industrial or business groups is Mukherjee beholden? Whom will he seek to help through his policies? Why was Mukherjee chosen for the finance portfolio over Montek Singh Ahluwalia?" – the last named is a reliably pro-US technocrat.

But no one stands more diminished by the leaks than the prime minister, Manmohan Singh, one of the former employees of the World Bank and IMF who have helped make India safe for oligarchism. It has long been common knowledge in political circles that Singh removed his oil minister in 2006 for the latter's allegedly anti-American advocacy of a gas pipeline to Iran. We now know from the cables that the then US ambassador congratulated himself for this "undeniable pro-American tilt" of the Indian government.

Visiting the White House in 2008, Singh induced a nationwide cringe when he blurted out to the most disliked American president ever: "The people of India deeply love you." (Even George Bush looked startled.) This love unblushingly speaks its name everywhere in the WikiLeaks cables; even the racketeers of Pakistani military and intelligence appear dignified when compared with the Indians stampeding to plant kisses on US behinds. Singh has presided over an ignominious surrender of national sovereignty and dignity.

There are many more dramatic revelations in store from WikiLeaks and The Hindu; these are tense days and nights for many politicians, business people and journalists. They probably hope the bad news is buried by the cricket World Cup celebrations. They will also try to prove their fealty to the father of the Indian nation – last week politicians vied with each other to threaten a sensitive study of Gandhi by the American writer Joseph Lelyveld with proscription. But there is nothing more un-Gandhian than this supra-national elite's wild cravings for power and wealth, and its indifference to suffering – a pathology of economic globalisation that Egyptians and Tunisians will soon learn elected governments don't cure, and even help conceal.

[proactive]

Manmohan Singh is a true hypocrite trying to hoodwink the people with his 'mr clean' credentials when it's obvious he's as dodgy as any other Indian leader! I bet he has millions siphoned away in some foreign bank accounts as well.

What's happened to Hsisingh? He was MS's main cheerleader here.

[dashmesh1984]

he is not a real Sikh.....plus he is a puppet of sonia gandhi.

[DashingSingh]

[chatanga]

the way we look at manmohan singh or indeed ourseeelve4s reflects our own personlaity as well.

For HsiSingh, obviously economics and financial gain are the very important achievements in his life. for a lot of sikhs including myself, integrity, honesty, and basic human rights rank high so we see Manmohan Singh as a poor human being.

[proactive]

You might be right but some people have a vested interest in promoting the nakammah leader of their choice. It sometimes boils down to what caste or background that leader is. When Zail Singh was president all the Tarkhans were his avid supporters even after 1984. MS's main appeal is to urban khatri/arora Sikhs.

[hsisingh]

the way we look at manmohan singh or indeed ourseeelve4s reflects our own personlaity as well.

For HsiSingh, obviously economics and financial gain are the very important achievements in his life. for a lot of sikhs including myself, integrity, honesty, and basic human rights rank high so we see Manmohan Singh as a poor human being.

Before you pass comments on what I wrote, read what I wrote.. just go back and do it now...

I did not talk about 'financial gain' ....... I wrote about how this Prime Minister's economic policies have alleviated poverty in India. Yes, poverty.. I also spoke about the National rural employment guarantee scheme he has introduced - which guarantees every rural household a minimum level of income.....and I also wrote about the reforms to the power sector which he forced through at great political cost....if you have ever been to the Punjab you will know the impact that power shortages have on farmers and poor people (who can not afford diesel generators).

I am not suggesting Manmohan Singh is perfect (I agree, more should have been done to combat corruption in India)...but on balance, he has been a successful Prime Minister who has done many good things....and inequality has increased in India, but 40% of the country's population today have a middle class lifestyle where they can spend money (which in itself creates jobs for working people who can then feed themselves).

If basic human rights rank so high for you - then you will agree with me - because some of the most basic human rights are the right to food, shelter and clothing - things that he has done much to improve.

[DashingSingh]

Lets look at the Cabinet memberswhom Manmohan Singh defends day and night in service of RANI vehemently :-

1 . Pranab Mukharjee : Who made sure Swiss Bank do not disclose names of Swiss BAnk Account Holders.

2. Chidambaram: Who is the biggest Traitor of his cabinet. He went to Uk and said to corporates there that you ruled for 200 yrs and I invite u to rule for another 200yr, he also was exposed by Wikipeadia saying that We should cut of North and Eastern part of country then only India can progress.

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=fumTHgMGnPg

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=hfocZQoD1VI

3. Kapil Sibal : A result of Pro - US cabinet reshuffle as per Wikileaks. He saw no Scam in 2G and today Raja is in jail due to SC.

4. Kamalnath : who burned Rakab Ganj during Nov 84 and was named in Cash For Votes by wikileaks.

A person who can support the above criminals and theifs can no doubt be called a TRAIOTR.

Moreover Manmohan went to Genva Convention and said that THERE WAS NO HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS DURING 84 AND HIS GOVT DOES NOT RECOGNIZE ANY SUCH COMMUNITY AS SIKH.Such a traitor was being supported by Sikhs for long. Manmohan Singh in 1994 gave speech saying Rajiv Gandhi was a very peaceful person(Despite of his masterminding 84 Genocide).

Manmohan Singh works as a servant of Sonia the Fraud and his son. And he full of praise of Biggest Sikh killer Rajiv Gandhi