The fact of Mr Manmohan Singh's failure in not having tackled the scams, is increasingly being cited by several bureaucrats, the latest being former Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Chairman Pradip Baijal. It is on the 2G Spectrum scam issue that the former Prime Minister's helplessness before the DMK, which he called the compulsions of coalition politics, that his culpability is most evident. His loyalty to 10 Janpath is to be blamed for his fall from the grace
Mr Singh may be an excellent economist, but at some stage his intuition should have alerted him to the compromises he was making as an individual and to the position of the Prime Minister of the country. He ought to have resigned instead of allowing contemporary history to portray him in the bad light that it has. His personal integrity not being in doubt is in itself not enough to repair the damage he has inflicted on himself and on the country.