‘Manmohan Singh was to be made President, Pranab Mukherjee to be PM’, what else in Mani Shankar Aiyar’s book

Manishankar Aiyar Book: Senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar has said in his new book that when the post of President became vacant in 2012, Pranab Mukherjee should have been handed over the reins of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA)-II government and Manmohan Singh should have been made the President. . Iyer (83) has written in the book that if this had been done at that time, the UPA government would not have reached the point of paralysis of governance.

Aiyar said the decision to retain Manmohan Singh as Prime Minister and send Pranab Mukherjee to Rashtrapati Bhavan destroyed the UPA’s chances of forming the government for the third time. Iyer has expressed these views in his book ‘A Maverick in Politics’. This book has been published by ‘Juggernaut’. In the book, Aiyar talks about his early days in politics, the reign of former Prime Minister Narasimha Rao, his tenure as a minister in UPA-I, his tenure in the Rajya Sabha and then his “decline in status… falling out of the picture… Mentioned about ‘fall’.

Manmohan Singh had to undergo bypass surgery several times in 2012.

Iyer wrote, “In 2012, the Prime Minister (Manmohan Singh) had to undergo ‘coronary bypass surgery’ several times. He never fully recovered physically. Due to this, the pace of their work slowed down and it also affected the governance. When the Prime Minister’s health deteriorated, around the same time the (then) Congress President (Sonia Gandhi) also fell ill, but the party did not make any official announcement about her health. Aiyar said it soon became clear that there was stagnation in both the offices – prime minister and party president. There was a lack of governance while many crises, particularly Anna Hazare’s ‘India Against Corruption’ movement, were either not dealt with effectively or were not dealt with at all.

‘Pranab Mukherjee should have been handed over the reins of the government’

Mani Shankar Aiyar wrote in the book, “Personally, I believe that when the post of President became vacant in 2012, Pranab Mukherjee should have been handed over the reins of the government and Dr. Manmohan Singh should have been made the President of India.’ Iyer said, “Pranab’s memoirs show that this was indeed considered.” Iyer said, “For some reasons that neither I nor I are aware of.” Nor probably would anyone else, it was decided to retain Dr. Manmohan Singh as Prime Minister and elevate Pranab Mukherjee as President.

Humiliating defeat in 2014

Regarding his idea of ​​Mukherjee being made the Prime Minister in 2012, Aiyar said, “I think that if Dr. Manmohan Singh had become the President and Pranab the Prime Minister, we would still have faced defeat in 2014, but this defeat was so humiliating. Otherwise, we would have been limited to only 44 seats.” He said that in 2013 everyone was recovering from illness and hence many allegations were made against us which were never proved in the court.

‘The government and the party could not have such credibility that…’

Aiyar said in his book that the government and the party lacked the credibility to respond to the allegations by a media hungry to clearly sensationalize matters and thought that the issues could be brought to an end by the resignation of the ministers concerned. Could. He said that this did not solve anything and the unproven allegations further damaged the government’s reputation.

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