India Lost on Power Path

India Lost on Power Path

The rut that the brilliant Oxbridge-trained economist Manmohan Singh has let his second term as Indian prime minister descend into defies belief.

At a press conference last month marking the end of the first year of his second term as prime minister of the Congress party-lead UPA-II government, Singh showed surprising and unappealing impatience with the idea of leaving any kind of a legacy behind. The prime minister said he had been given a job to do, and had had no intention of retiring until he had done it, although he would make a place for Rahul Gandhi, son of Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi—if the party so desired.

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