History is unlikely to take a kind view of Manmohan Singh

Manmohan Singh has always said he leaves it to history to judge his performance. At his press conference on Friday in New Delhi, the first at home in over three years, the Prime Minister repeated this, but he seemed to suggest more. The central message was that his government had succeeded in achieving high economic growth and that the Narendra Modi brand of politics — a mix of Hindutva ideology and free-marketism — was “disastrous” for India.

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