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Manmohan Singh was the worst and most corrupt Prime Minister India 🇮🇳 ever had. Manmohan Singh was the worst and most corrupt Prime Minister India ever had. And history does not have to be kind to him. He was not a “great economist.” Not a “gentleman.” A figurehead who ran the country into a wall while the family collected power and the country paid the bill. - He was not a real economist. “Oxford economist” was branding. People still can’t point to a serious body of original papers that justify the halo. - 1991 credit was stolen. Narasimha Rao opened the economy and pulled India out of bankruptcy. Singh administered what the IMF and the crisis already forced. Glorifying him instead of Rao is propaganda. - Vajpayee handed him the 10th-largest economy. He handed Modi a fragile, scam-soaked, policy-paralysed mess. We joined fragile five group under him. - India’s per-capita GDP versus China collapsed under him. That is the scoreboard, not the obituaries. - He sat on finance bodies from the late 1960s. The 1973–74 compulsory deposit scheme was income tax stacked on income tax. Citizens paid. He kept the chair. - He was ready to sign away Siachen. The Army put its foot down and said no. Sonia’s pressure was in the room. The Prime Minister was not. - In critical meetings Sonia Gandhi sat in front. He sat behind. That is not leadership. That is a hired signature. - “He made so much money and kept staying in the US. I cannot accept that he’s not corrupt.” Daughters’ money trails were part of the same charge. - Low reported tax in earlier years was waved away. The lifestyle and the foreign stays were not. - Policy paralysis, 2G, coal, Commonwealth, the government was a cash register with a mute Prime Minister attached. - Under him India became the weak link of #BRICS , not a co-equal. Goldman and others in 2011–13 were openly asking if the “I” should become Indonesia. - Per-capita GDP growth 2004–14: China +406%, Russia +243%, Brazil +233%, India +150%. Worst of the original four. - India hosted the 2012 Delhi summit. The photo-op happened. The economy was already sliding into policy paralysis, high inflation, and the “Fragile Five.” - Trade with China exploded on China’s terms. BRICS became a room where Beijing set the weight and Delhi smiled. - He floated a BRICS bank in 2012. When the New Development Bank was actually signed in July 2014, headquarters went to Shanghai. India got the first rotating president. China got the building. - He didn’t invent BRICS and he didn’t walk India out of it. He also didn’t use it. India sat in the club as the softest, slowest member while China used the platform. So everyone who continues to praise him, Stop the saint act. Stop rewriting a weak, compromised decade as genius. He was nothing but a huge disappointment and a big failure for the nation.