Saints Should Always be Judged Guilty Until they are Proved Innocent

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, is a famous line by George Orwell. The case can be applied to our current prime minister (who knows for how long), Manmohan Singh. He has been, from the beginning of his career at the UN, considered as a man of incredible intellect and a down to earth, no frills kind of person. People of such brilliance are inherently proud and shrewd, but such characteristics cannot be associated with Manmohan Singh. The question arises that how someone with so many things remain a saint? And have these properties led to his current situation of a lame duck prime minister?

A classical paradox emerges when we look at the above statements. How can a saint who is already down to earth fall down from a position of power. Let's look deep into the mind of our prime minister, maybe we can find answers to problems that the current government faces. Why Manmohan Singh failed as a leader? He had the basic ingredients of being a great man like intellectual prowess, power courtesy Sonia Gandhi, in a way she granted him prime ministership on a silver platter, and a nation which was egging to be directed in a direction of being a superpower.

Well it cannot be denied that this man gave India its growth story, an outlook of a country ready to take on the world. All that has gone to waste with situation of the world economy. Policy paralysis, bad governance and what not, Manmohan Singh government has an image of a cranky old lady who is out of her mind, in the minds of the people. Is Manmohan Singh done with the world or simply he does not care? Did he let people around him mislead him or he wasn't in the driver's seat at all? A study in blue it might be called in the future. What do people with power want? More power, is  the general theory but in this case it is not to be. Where has the power gone and how did it come to this? This can be considered as a classical case of how to lose power and that too immense power.

This can also become a study in black when you look into investigations in the Coal Scam. Did Manmohan Singh, in his prime become so lazy as not to check on what was being done by A. Raja or did the number one know what the number two was upto? Number always knows what number two is upto and it hasn't been proved otherwise anywhere in the world. If we study Manmohan Singh's characteristics then we get to know that the man so unpolitical and professional is not capable of doing a crime of this magnitude. Did the power corrupt him as it always does? Is there a dark side to an otherwise bright character or is it just a dark spot? Let's read the first line of this article once again.