In , when he had readily handed out six out of 10 to his government; this time he had scrupulously avoided rating himself. But like any leader, Singh too leaves behind him a legacy that is a mixed bag of the good and the bad. Whether the positives outweigh the negatives or vice versa can be assessed only with the passage of time and the advantage of hindsight. The big question staring at the man who was the third longest serving prime minister since Independence, is whether he will be respected or reviled, complimented or castigated, lauded or lambasted, praised or… persecuted and worse still prosecuted?
Will he be hailed as another Atal Behari Vajpayee who faded into quiet retirement after losing in or be painted as another PV Narasimha Rao who had to spend his retirement days trying to wash off the stain of the demolition of the Babri Masjid or the many charges of graft?
While in power, Singh had to fight off allegations of corruption that virtually reached his doorstep, in particular the telecom and the coal block allocation scams. Indeed, demands were raised both in the Public Accounts Committee and the Joint Parliamentary Committee thereafter for the prime minister to appear before it. If the CAG report pegging a presumptive loss of Rs 1. It would be a grim reminder of what Rao had to go through after he lost the elections and had to make a courtroom appearance in the St Kitts forgery, Lakhubhai Pathak cheating and the JMM payoff cases.
Indeed, even his worst critics credit the scholarly Singh with a squeaky clean image when it comes to him personally. That was an enduring legacy that he brought with him into South Block after Congress president Sonia Gandhi renounced the prime ministerial post in and decided to anoint him instead.
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Internet Not Available. Incidentally, the BJP campaign in the run-up to the elections had centred on various alleged scams, including in the allocations of 2G spectrum and coal blocks, during the year tenure of the Singh-led UPA government. He said that division and hate have become synonymous with the BJP and it thrives on societal fissures. People are fed up with the daily loud rhetoric of cosmetic change. There is a sense of deep despair and disillusionment amongst the masses.
A single man can neither represent all the desires of crore people of India and can also not solve the variety of problems faced by them.
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