I believe him!

Check out this article:
http://churumuri.wordpress.com/2008/07/19/is-manmohan-singh-still-indias-weakest-pm/

It felt great joy on the day i heard the news that Manmohan singh is going to be the PM. It felt great when Chidambaram took over as FM, and Sonia Gandhi dissolved into the background. It was a blow par excellence for Indian politics. But soon after that, all shine was gone and everyone pointed fingers at PM, FM.

Media never showed the reason behind finger pointing, may be there never was. But all the time, it made me sad seeing good technocrats labeled as bad leaders. May be they were bad leaders but in either case no one gave any rationale behind it.

Manmohan Singh was labeled as the weakest PM, a dummy person and what-not and they gave instances where he had failed to act. Some part of me agreed but some part said that he is a man of action and not words, action not reported by media and absence of words leads to any interpretation.

But this time, he has taken a stand, he has set the bars and he also is not sure whether he can make it or not. (Disclosure: I am again ignorant on what N deal is but i trust that the big leaders (MS, Kalam, Gurcharan Das and hundreds of technocrats and if they say yes, i trust them). I have never read any article before by the person who wrote the above article but i believe him because it makes sense. It must have been a topic of great impact for which a party is ready to give up its power to achieve its goal. MS has taken it head-on and he is playing it.

Now there are rumours of bribery, promises etc to rope in votes. Congress is counting support from people like Shibu Soren and Lalu. What can be worst than this? But its all about numbers, isnt it? All about greater good?
All morality, all principles fail when it comes to Indian politics or kashmir issue. Things like greater good, majority, sentiments all overshadow the rationale. Is there no way out?