Singh is King! The throne is his too!

July 24, 2008 at 11:06 am | Posted in Politics | Leave a comment
Tags: Manmohan Singh, Nuclear Deal, Sonia Gandhi

So the UPA government has survived the no confidence motion. Whether the Nuclear deal is good for the country or not, is not something the common man can easily decipher. Many magazine editors, notably Vinod Mehta of Outlook has been strongly against the deal, saying that the deal ties India’s hands despite not being among the countries which have signed the Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

But for the common man, I think all that matters are issues like increasing fuel prices due to the inflation. I for one am happy that Dr. Manmohan Singh’s government survived and we did not have a mid term election. Or even worse some Third Front had come to the forefront and India had a Prime Minister from one of the many ingreidient parties!

So Singh is King!

 

 

For Dr. Manmohan Singh who has always been described not as a politician but more so as an intellectual, this victory has been heralded as his arrival on the political arena. I find it funny though that many media articles and even blogs for that matter think that despite being a congress party man for many long years and a Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh does not have the control of the strings in the party and it is Sonia Gandhi, who is the power behind his throne. I mean come on! Here is a foreigner lady who came to India by getting married to Indian Political royalty’s unwilling prince, Rajiv Gandhi. Then after his assasination shunned away from all political connections, only to later be bought into the system by sycophants in the Congress due to her acquired Surname; and people beleive that she controls the Indian Prime Minister’s seat?

Now, I am not saying that controlling the Indian Prime Minister’s seat is not possible for anyone. But for Sonia Gandhi, the demure Italian lady to be the secret power behind the throne while there are other wily old Indian Politicians, like Pranab Mukherjee is actually funny! She might be the face of the Congress party, but I doubt if she weilds too much power. The only power she has according to me is that she is considered by many of the ignoramuses in the Indian populace as the Gandhi family icon, and the legitimacy this gives her to rule them! Other wily old politicians in the Congress party know this and hence she is the President of the party!

But I also have deep respect for this lady; afterall, she has survived to keep up the facade while having to deal with sycophancy and jingoism which charecterize Indian politics! Afterall, power corrupts; but living with the facade of power, while actually having none is an extremely difficult situation to be in!