Assessing Manmohan Singh: He was never a true reformist by instinct

It has been more than a year now, seven years if one counts from 2004. As prime minister, Manmohan Singh (let's call him MMS) is most likely on his way out, once the Congress figures out the exit policy. Since clamours for removal have emanated from within the Congress too, we aren't talking about 2014. More like 2012.MMS may have been an economist once. But for years and years, he was a laterally inducted bureaucrat. A requisite characteristic of a successful bureaucrat is lack of conviction, economic, political or ideological. You need to be malleable. And MMS was successful at that.

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