How do you rank Pseudo Gandhi-Nehru rule --------------------------------------------------------- Ranking Indian Prime Ministers Of the Indian Prime Ministers - day dreamer Nehru can be excused for building the nation and acquiring the various territories. The urine drinking Morarji Desai, who messed up the RAW can be excused for cleaning up the administration and Constitution repealing the mess that Indira brought during Emergency. The sleeping beauty Dewe Gowda could be excused for bringing one of the best budgets in the only year he ruled. Shastri was very honorable, non-smiler Rao heralded the economic reforms, slow talking Vajpayee strengthened the defense, foreign policy and economy. Muted man Manmohan despite being a silent spectator didnt commit big blunders outside of the scams, invisible IK Gujral was good in foreign policy. VP Singh was bad, but didnt commit a big blunder outside of Mandal. Indira is a strong contender for the worst PM, but somewhat excused for winning the 1971 war, nuclearizing India and standing strong against the superpowers. Why Rajiv is the worst. This leaves only one Prime Minister - Rajiv Gandhi - for the title of the worst Prime Minister, beating even his own mother on this. His positives were nothing compared to the blunders he committed through inexperience. With Rajiv we had - mismanagement of Sri Lankan terrorism, Punjab terrorism, worst of Indias pogrom, worst industrial disaster, biggest terrorist attacks, the start of Kashmiri terrorism, the start of Babri Masjid crisis... Rajiv has been such a horror that he is practically peerless. The only reason we refuse to hate Rajiv is because he is good looking and we are fundamentally wired to not hate such figures. Conclusion There is an ancient parable about a barbarous king who forced his subjects to give up their rice in return for taking his paddy. Since rice was 2x more valuable than paddy, the people lost a lot. He was highly unpopular. On his death bed, the king wanted his son to repair his bad name. The loving son thus made a new law. He commanded that people had to give up rice in return for taking cattle food. This was even worse than the previous king and thus the people started celebrating the old king looking at his reign with nostalgia. This is what happens in the Nehru family.. This is apt for the Nehru family - where every successor is so worse compared to their predecessor that we tend to think of the old man/old woman in a much more positive way.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 09:44:38 +0000
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