Prime Minister Narendra Modi should hold his horses. Making sarcastic remarks against former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was not correct on his part. That too in the parliament before the MPs. Manmohan Singh commands a great respect and he is wizard in the financial matters. There is no second thought about it.
Manmohan was the architect of the economic reforms during the regime of PV Narasimaha Rao and PV gave him all the weight. Finance Minister Arum Jaitley said that in fact the comment made by PM was in fact a compliment. PM said bathing with a rain coat on was only possible for Manmohan singh.
But Congress VP Rahul Gandhi shot back by saying. PM Modi was interested in peeping into peoples bathrooms. Perhaps this was the first time in the recent episodes where PM was snubbed by Rahul. It was Rahul who was taking it all the time. But this time Rahul paid back the PM Modi in the same coin.
The Congress party also staged a walkout over the issue. They wanted the PM to apolozise over the issue. But Manmohan Singh just kept quite and did not react over it. After all he is a statesman and was also the PM of India. We can say Modi is no match to Manmohan Singh.
Taking this as a warning, the PM should hold his horses and stop entertaining the MPs in Parliament for each and every thing. We are doing well does not mean that we have to chide at others. One must not have overconfidence.
Modi is a good orator, but that does not mean you can heckle people like Manmohan who don’t have anything against them in their life time, except becoming the PM and taking the diktats of Sonia and her family.
U.Srinivas
Editor
