It’s open season for criticising India’s leaders. Time too, you might say – why didn’t the attacks start much earlier in the current government which has been failing for most of the time since it was elected in 2009. Pranab Mukherjee, publicly regarded until a few weeks ago as the veteran politician on whom the government depended for solving its problems, is now billed as a disastrous finance minister who has damaged India’s economic growth and international image. The switch – which is broadly fair – came immediately after he gave up the finance job two weeks ago to stand for election as India’s as president.
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