The country is in the grip of a severe inflation. The Consumer Price Index based inflation is 14%, food prices are growing at 18%, common man is hard hit and crying for leadership and policy guidelines from the Super Economist Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The Economist is scarecely to be seen or heard since the fiasco that was the Indo-US nuclear deal (We signed the nuclear deal when MMS put his prestige and job online like a petulant child and have hardly got any benefit out of it till now). His ministers scarecely listen to him and have their own agenda - be it Sharad Pawar (who is only interested in allowing sugar prices to rise so that Maharashtrian sugar barons are benefitted), Raja ( who treats telecom ministry as a money making business ), Shashi Twitter Tharoor, Jairam Ramesh and many others. MMS is also quiet on Indians being attacked in Australia. We have not seen him give an interview on his vision for India and how his road map for the economy.
Just when we thought he was hiding behind the scenes, he had to make an ass of himself by,
"Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is believed to be extremely upset -- some say even livid -- over the manner in which Indian Premier League boss Lalit Modi has ensured that of the latest edition of the Twenty20 extravaganza. Sources said he is credited with the view that an "emerging window of opportunity" has been closed and Home Minister P Chidambaram's statement denouncing the decision to exclude Pakistani players from the tournament was made at the behest of the Prime Minister. It is also learnt that Dr Singh wants Board of Control for Cricket in India chief Sharad Pawar to find ways by which they can act against Modi, who is being viewed in government circles as running a BJP agenda to embarrass the government, having suffered at the hands of the Rajasthan Congress leadership -- first Ashok Gehlot who took him on, and then C P Joshi, who defeated him in the Rajasthan Cricket Board elections.Keeping in mind the behind-the-scenes moves and Track II diplomacy to somehow bring a note of rationality and sanity between the two countries in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks the Prime Minister is of the view that at this sensitive juncture in Pakistan's history, when the country is itself about to topple over the edge, the IPL has inflicted the single biggest blow to India-Pakistan relations."
Just look at the priorities of our esteemed PM. He is more concerned about a couple of Pakistani players making money in IPL than crores of Indians who are fighting for one decent meal.
