Bharat Ratna for Manmohan Singh? He doesn’t deserve one

Hailing Manmohan Singh may serve a political purpose for Modi, but Manmohan’s legacy is nothing to be proud of. I write in The Print:

Make no mistake: Manmohan Singh was a terrible prime minister; so terrible that his term ended with Narendra Modi becoming the prime minister, that too, with a clear majority, a first since 1984.

Since Manmohan Singh left office, there’s been an effort by the Congress and by liberals to re-write the history of UPA-2. ‘Manmohan was such a decent man, just compare him to Modi’. ‘UPA-2 was a great, scam-free government, no charges have come to a conviction’. ‘India misses Manmohan’. Not really.