The 100 days of UPA.

Dr Manmohan Singh has created a history in Indian politics by winning the faith of the nation consecutively for the second time. He has been the second prime minister after Pundit Nehru to achieve this in the history of India.

For the UPA government led by Mr Singh, it has been 100 days since the reinstatement for the second time. The people of India has laid utmost faith in the Congress led UPA as evident form the better numbers gained in Parliament by Congress in battle 2009. The people of the country have reinstated Mr Singh back to power with a hope, a hope for betterment of the economy in the lieu of global economic melt down, a hope for better governance on a whole for a better tomorrow for the generations to come.

It shall not be right on the part of any critic to slam or praise the government for a mere hundred day rule or just less than one seventeenth of the total spam of entitlement to govern the nation. But for this has been a only a continuation of the previous term, I feel that Mr Singh deserves an appraisal for his performance over the past 6 years.

I shall start the process of appraisal with the department, for which Mr Singh is considered an expert of his contemporaries, the economy of the country. In the turmoil of the global economic melt down I shall appreciate Mr Singh for not letting the ill effects of recessions reach the average Indian so long, but I shall certainly term it a failure on his part for the sky rocketing prices of essential commodities. The price rise has not been an unusual phenomenon across the globe, but is defiantly an issue to be pointed in India for the reason, the price rise of the world has been by product of recession, where as in India it is set on run by the greed of the traders by illegal stocking of food grains in godowns. The performance of the government in this concern has been poor and deserves a rating below 4 on scale of 10.

The next on list is health ministry for the inefficiency to face the crisis like swine flu. It’s a matter of national shame that only 4 labs all across the country have been equipped for a long time when the disease was on spread to test this. Mr Azad also deserves no more than 4 for his poor show.

The other major aspect has been with security and defense, the government seemed to learn no lessons from the 26/11 attacks. An American national has recently traveled all over the country with an illegal possession of a gun in his baggage via air. This exposes the severity of security lapses across the country and the side effects of the VIP syndrome from being frisked in India. I am glad that there have been no significant terror attacks in the country in recent times, but I shall not call this an achievement of the government for the reason it may be a clam before a cyclone or the international pressure on terror breeding countries post Mumbai attacks.

The bilateral talks with Pak have been proved a diplomatic blunder by Mr Singh for the inclusion of Baluchistan issue which had rather been an internal headache of Pak for decades. It was a complete failure of diplomacy in this regard. Also the ways pursued by th government to put the master minds of 26/11 before bars has added to the failure of external affairs.

The drought had been yet another failure of the government. Though it has been anticipated by the end of June for the less rain fall to come in the days to follow, government has taken no steps for the drought relief to the farmers of the country. This has been yet another poor performance of the ruling body.

Amidst so many failures I term only one person successful in the whole government. None other than Mr Kapil Sibal for the educational reforms he structured for the sick educational system prevailing in India, which credit and torture students to score marks. He is the only one in the whole government who deserves applause from every section of society.

For the overall performance of the government has been very poor and far below the line of expectation of people of the country. To the end I would like to advise Mr Singh to not let down the people of the nation for giving him a historic second chance to rule the country. I shall remind him of the Independence Day speech for the special provisions being formulated for the minorities, its better in a secular country if he viewed the all the sections of society with eyes of equality for the reason there are many more people even with majority section who need a bail out package from government. I hope Mr Singh sets aside this minority appeasement and the vote game in the days to comes and reaches out to every deserving individual.