Manishankar Aiyar Book: Senior Congress chief Mani Shankar Aiyar has mentioned in his new book that when the submit of President grew to become vacant in 2012, Pranab Mukherjee ought to have been handed over the reins of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA)-II authorities and Manmohan Singh ought to have been made the President. . Iyer (83) has written in the book that if this had been finished at the moment, the UPA authorities wouldn’t have reached the purpose of paralysis of governance.
Iyer mentioned the choice to retain Manmohan Singh as Prime Minister and ship Pranab Mukherjee to Rashtrapati Bhavan destroyed the UPA’s probabilities of forming the federal government for the third time. Iyer has expressed these views in his book ‘A Maverick in Politics’. This book has been revealed by ‘Juggernaut’. In the book, Aiyar talks about his early days in politics, the reign of former Prime Minister Narasimha Rao, his tenure as a minister in UPA-I, his tenure in the Rajya Sabha after which his “decline in standing… falling out of the image… Mentioned about ‘fall’.
Manmohan Singh had to bear bypass surgical procedure a number of instances in 2012.
Iyer wrote, “In 2012, the Prime Minister (Manmohan Singh) had to bear ‘coronary bypass surgical procedure’ a number of instances. He by no means absolutely recovered bodily. Due to this, the tempo of their work slowed down and it additionally affected the governance. When the Prime Minister’s well being deteriorated, across the identical time the (then) Congress President (Sonia Gandhi) additionally fell sick, however the occasion didn’t make any official announcement about her well being. Aiyar mentioned it quickly grew to become clear that there was stagnation in each the places of work – prime minister and occasion president. There was an absence of governance whereas many crises, significantly Anna Hazare’s ‘India Against Corruption’ motion, had been both not handled successfully or weren’t handled in any respect.
‘Pranab Mukherjee ought to have been handed over the reins of the federal government’
Mani Shankar Aiyar wrote in the book, “Personally, I believe that when the post of President became vacant in 2012, Pranab Mukherjee should have been handed over the reins of the government and Dr. Manmohan Singh should have been made the President of India.” Iyer mentioned, “Pranab’s memoirs show that this was indeed considered.” Iyer mentioned, “For some reasons, which neither I nor I are aware of.” Nor in all probability would anybody else, it was determined to retain Dr. Manmohan Singh as Prime Minister and elevate Pranab Mukherjee as President.
Humiliating defeat in 2014
Regarding his concept of Mukherjee being made the Prime Minister in 2012, Aiyar mentioned, “I feel that if Dr. Manmohan Singh had grow to be the President and Pranab the Prime Minister, we might nonetheless have confronted defeat in 2014, however this defeat was so humiliating. Otherwise, we might have been restricted to solely 44 seats.” He mentioned that in 2013 everybody was recovering from sickness and therefore many allegations had been made in opposition to us which had been by no means proved in the courtroom.
‘The authorities and the occasion couldn’t have such credibility that…’
Aiyar mentioned in his book that the federal government and the occasion lacked the credibility to reply to allegations by a media hungry to clearly sensationalize issues and thought that the problems may be introduced to an finish by the resignation of the ministers involved. Could. He mentioned that this didn’t clear up something and the unproven allegations additional broken the federal government’s popularity.
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