Credibility of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has undergone erosion with the u-turn that he as well as Congress president Sonia Gandhi has made on the the issue of the Indo-US nuclear deal. The PM and the entire Congress leadership had been saying till yesterday that the deal was favourable to India and even had suggested that those who were opposed to it (read the Left) were enemies of the country's development. An independent-minded person tended to believe what Dr. Singh said about the deal. A decent, honourable and erudite man that he was, Dr. Singh's views on the issue were seen as honest and true. The authority of the PM's post also lent it public credence. I fail to understand what made the PM and Ms. Gandhi to change their stance on the issue and say that the Left's concerns were not fully unjustified. At last, the Congress has capitulated before the ideological posturings of the Left. For politicians, it may be compulsions of coalition politics that have led to the surrender. For an ordinary citizen, this somersault has dealt a terrible blow on the authority of the institution called Prime Minister of India.
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