No Apology From Washington Post For Article Calling Pm 'a Tragic Figur

[Steelers]

[b] [color=#ff0000]No apology from The Washington Post for article calling PM Manmohan Singh 'a tragic figure'[/color][/b]


[b]New Delhi: [/b][color=#000000][font=Georgia,]Not many days after the [/font][/color][i]Time[/i][color=#000000][font=Georgia,]magazine called him an underachiever, another widely respected publication has been critical of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the UPA, saying his image is one of a "dithering, ineffectual bureaucrat presiding over a deeply corrupt government". [/font][/color][url="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/indias-silent-prime-minister-becomes-a-tragic-figure/2012/09/04/a88662c4-f396-11e1-adc6-87dfa8eff430_story.html"](Read original Washington Post article here)[/url]

[color=#000000][font=Georgia,]This time it is American daily [/font][/color][i]The Washington Post[/i][color=#000000][font=Georgia,] that has critiqued Dr Singh's performance as India's Prime Minister and served a less than flattering report card. The New Delhi-datelined article titled, "India's 'silent' prime minister becomes a tragic figure," credits Dr Singh with once being the major force behind the growing closeness between the US and says his friendship with the Obama administration is "a valued and publicised achievement". [/font][/color]

[color=#000000][font=Georgia,]Taking strong exception to the article, Union minister Ambika Soni today said, "We have done it before and they have apologized. If [/font][/color][i]The Washington Post[/i][color=#000000][font=Georgia,] has written such a piece on the Prime Minister, then trust me to oppose this strongly." [/font][/color]


[color=#000000][font=Georgia,]The Post has denied that it has apologised for the story to the Prime Minister's Office and also that it failed to take the PM's version of the story. The reporter has tweeted that he had asked for an interview and his request was declined. He tweeted that an apology for the newspaper's website not functioning properly was given to PMO since they they were unable to put in a comment in reaction to his story. He also tweeted that "no threats were issues from their (PMO) side, no apology offered from mine". [/font][/color]

[color=#000000][font=Georgia,]It quotes critics to say that the PM - who it describes as "a shy, soft-spoken 79-year-old" - is in danger of going down in history as a "failure". "He has become a tragic figure in our history," the Post quotes historian Ramachandra Guha, also the author of "India after Gandhi", as saying. [/font][/color]

[color=#000000][font=Georgia,]Mr Guha is quoted as describing Dr Singh as "fatally handicapped by his timidity, complacency and intellectual dishonesty". [/font][/color]

[color=#000000][font=Georgia,]The BJP seized upon the opportunity to criticise the Prime Minister. "This is absolutely right, everyone knows that he is a corrupt leader. He had a very good image of an economist and an honest leader, it was not expected that his image would come crashing down like this. Even we didn't expect this," said BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi. [/font][/color]

[color=#000000][font=Georgia,]Last month, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who has long been lauded for his pivotal role in liberalising the Indian economy, was dubbed as an "underachiever" by [/font][/color][i]Time[/i][color=#000000][font=Georgia,] magazine in its Asia edition. In an article titled 'A Man in Shadow', the magazine said he appears "unwilling to stick his neck out" on reforms that will put the country back on growth path. The Opposition BJP had latched on to that story, saying that [/font][/color][i]Time[/i][color=#000000][font=Georgia,] had reiterated what it had been saying all along. The Congress had to put its best ministers and spokespersons up to defend the PM at that time.[/font][/color]

[color=#000000][font=Georgia,]UK daily [/font][/color][i]The Independent[/i][color=#000000][font=Georgia,] too had carried a critique of the Prime Minister calling him, as [/font][/color][i]Time[/i][color=#000000][font=Georgia,]magazine suggested, 'the underachiever'.[/font][/color]

[color=#000000][font=Georgia,]And in June this year, global rating agency Standard and Poor's was critical of the Prime Minister as well. Its report said, "Moreover, paramount political power rests with the leader of the Congress, Sonia Gandhi, who holds no Cabinet position, while the government is led by an unelected Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who lacks a political base of his own."[/font][/color]

[color=#000000][font=Georgia,]The Prime Minister has for some time now been facing severe criticism for allowing the economy to slide by not taking politically tough reform decisions. Many allegations of corruption and scams in the government have not helped his cause either. The latest is the coal allocation issue; the national auditor or CAG has alleged that private firms were shown undue favours, allowing them windfall gains of [/font][/color][color=#000000][font=RupeeForadianRegular][size=4]R[/size][/font][/color]
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[color=#000000][font=Georgia,]1.86 lakh crore. Two Congress MPs, one of them a minister in the Union cabinet, are already facing public and political indictment and one of them has been booked by the CBI. [/font][/color]

[color=#000000][font=Georgia,]The Opposition BJP has not allowed Parliament to function at all in the current Monsoon Session, demanding the PM's resignation, since he was the coal minister at the time the national auditor alleges the scam happened. [/font][/color]

[color=#000000][font=Georgia,]edho controversies ki dhooram ga undham ani calm ga untunte , prathodu gudilo ganta ni kotti poyinattu kotti pothunnaru [/font][/color]

[dilkush]

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[cherlapalli_jailer]

Nijalu cheppina Apology cheppala sigguvundali vedavalaki

Intha brathuku bathiki

Pilli paalu taaginattu

[Vaampire]

Burada lo pandi. congress lo MMS. difference ledhu.

ee bathuku bathakadam kanna sachipodam better. future generations ithanini Good Finance minister kantey impotent PM gaaney gurthu pettukuntaru.

[cherlapalli_jailer]

Nijalu cheppina Apology cheppala sigguvundali vedavalaki

Intha brathuku bathiki

Pilli paalu taaginattu

[turbonator]

+1 for Washington Post....rap adinchadu article to. PV safe ga anta support iste cheyyagaligadu tappa manodiki politics assalu suit kavu....ematram self respect n M lo juice vunna vadu resign chestadu a post ki

thu jivitham

[turbonator]

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[pikki]

Who the hell cares....[img]http://i53.tinypic.com/2hn58hh.gif[/img]

[CHANAKYA]

lol.. MMS ante andariki kaamedy ayyipoyindi gaa...

[pikki]

[quote name='CHANAKYA' timestamp='1346874593' post='1302433594']
lol.. MMS ante andariki kaamedy ayyipoyindi gaa...
[/quote]

pakka thread lo veyasina post anukunta...[img]http://lh4.ggpht.com/-VC9UAsl0jkY/T9VVAKa-aCI/AAAAAAAAGo0/IrUGkLHXRt8/s150/PK-3.gif[/img]

[Steelers]

[quote name='CHANAKYA' timestamp='1346874593' post='1302433594']
lol.. MMS ante andariki kaamedy ayyipoyindi gaa...
[/quote]
[quote name='turbonator' timestamp='1346874304' post='1302433544']
+1 for Washington Post....rap adinchadu article to. PV safe ga anta support iste cheyyagaligadu tappa manodiki politics assalu suit kavu....ematram self respect n M lo juice vunna vadu resign chestadu a post ki

thu jivitham
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[quote name='cherlapalli_jailer' timestamp='1346874124' post='1302433508']
Nijalu cheppina Apology cheppala sigguvundali vedavalaki

Intha brathuku bathiki

Pilli paalu taaginattu
[/quote]
[quote name='Vaampire' timestamp='1346874122' post='1302433506']
Burada lo pandi. congress lo MMS. difference ledhu.

ee bathuku bathakadam kanna sachipodam better. future generations ithanini Good Finance minister kantey impotent PM gaaney gurthu pettukuntaru.
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[CHANAKYA]

[quote name='pikki' timestamp='1346874646' post='1302433603']

pakka thread lo veyasina post anukunta...[img]http://lh4.ggpht.com/-VC9UAsl0jkY/T9VVAKa-aCI/AAAAAAAAGo0/IrUGkLHXRt8/s150/PK-3.gif[/img]
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?
ardam kaala

[tom bhayya]

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[pikki]

[quote name='CHANAKYA' timestamp='1346874765' post='1302433623']
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ardam kaala
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ee thread lo post chesedi by mistake ikkada chesava ni anthe..nothing much...

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[lolliman]

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