The same person.

A recent Asia edition of Time magazine had a cover picture of our most revered Prime Minister with " Underachiever " printed in large letters across it. Now a British newspaper, The Independent has printed an article on our Prime Minister titled " India's saviour or Sonia's poodle ". Congress fellows are frothing in the mouth at the perceived insult saying that he is not to blame for the dire condition of the economy because coalition partners in government are not cooperating with reforms. They point out that he reformed the economy in 1991 and that he forced the passage of the Indo US nuclear deal by threatening to resign in 2008. The government won the confidence vote in parliament with the support of BJP MPs after the communists withdrew support. The BJP might have calculated that this would put Congress in their power in the year before general elections in 2009. In fact the Congress trumped the BJP by massive bribery of the electorate by forgiving all loans to farmers, reducing interest rates stimulating sale of consumer goods, starting the MNREGA scheme which is handing money to the rural poor for doing nothing and increased salaries of useless civil servants by 80%. This humongous injection of money into the economy assured Congress victory and resulted in uncontrolled inflation and soaring fiscal and current account deficits resulting in the fall of the rupee. In order to somehow cling onto power after elections the Congress resorted to further bribery of other parties by creating 47 ministries with 121 departments. No organisation can function with so many department heads so all work came to a standstill. Each politician has a different compulsion and with so many snouts in the trough there was no control. If Mr Singh is such a hotshot economist as the Congress creepy crawlies make him out to be he should have foreseen the consequences of his actions in 2008. If he resorted to such waste of public finance knowingly just to win the elections in 2009 then he willfully committed a serious economic crime against the country. That surely makes him, not just a poodle, but a traitor to his country. If he had no clue as to what he was doing then he is more than an underachiever. He is an ignorant pretender who has sneaked in through the Rajya Sabha and is totally unfit to lead India. Either he knows his subject or he does not. You cannot have it both ways. However, the biggest charge against him is that he presided over grand larceny and did nothing. If he had any honor he would have gone. But by hanging on he has made himself an accessory to all the crimes. Will he be proud when he sees Suresh Kalmadi representing India at the Olympic Games? Shameful.