Firstly,I just wanna say that I had no intension to compare honourable and respected Pranabda with our current Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh which I think is not the best choice for that post when Pranabda is there (its only my point of view)...
Yesterday one of my newest friend Swanand aka marathi was arguing with me that Dr. Manmohan Singh is best in our current cabinet but I was strictly against it and was favouring Pranabda(as always)....finally he said "Hamko maluum nai jyada par wo acchha hai...tumko pata hai to batao na tumko aana chaiye"...and asked me to give him a comparative study between the two....so here it is...
Firstly,I m just raising a question i.e. what a prime minister does???
any idea??
even I cant give the exact answer for this coz practically what he does and theoretically what he should rarely matches....don't u think so...???
Practically he only holds the offices he needs to and has a cabinet under his/her command ..but rarely commands it....the reason for it is simple he/she doesn't have the knowledge as well as experience of that field or we can say that ministery....and if one is unaware of anything how can he govern that thing??
Now if we go through the achievements as well as works of Dr. Manmohan Singh then we will find them to be monotonous (in only economic field)...so what I wanna point out here is that he has no experiance of other PMOs he is holding...yes he can be a very good choice for being a finance minister but not PM....
For being a finance minister also I would say that best choice would be Pranabda...the reasons i will be quoting in his achivements below...
Pranabda has the distinction of being a Minister for various high profile Ministries including Defence, Finance, External Affairs, Revenue, Shipping, Transport, Communication, Economic Affairs, Commerce and Industry....as well as he has been voted the best parliamentarian and a lot more achievents he has...now getting curious to know more about him??just wait below i m going to give postions hold as well as achievements of both of them.....I think marathi this will surely change your opinion about Dr Manmohan Singh of being the best option for being PM.....
I know that u were favouring him coz u were aware of his economic achievements and today country needs a planned economic growth to sustain and to stand strongly in todays' world...but I m sure u would have been anawre of Pranabda's contribution to India as well as world....now go through the following firstly with your current fav and then your (going to be)fav....
Dr Manmohan Singh
POSITIONS:
1971-72: Economic advisor, ministry of foreign trade
1972-76: Chief economic advisor, ministry of finance
1976-80: Director, Reserve Bank of India; Director, Industrial Development Bank of India; Alternate governor for India, Board of governors, Asian Development Bank; Alternate governor for India, Board of governors, IBRD
November 1976 - April 1980: Secretary, ministry of finance (department of economic affairs); Member, finance, Atomic Energy Commission; Member, finance, Space Commission
April 1980 - September 15, 1982 : Member-secretary, Planning Commission
1980-83: Chairman, India Committee of the Indo-Japan joint study committee September 16, 1982 - January 14, 1985: Governor, Reserve Bank of India
1982-85: Alternate Governor for India, Board of governors, International Monetary Fund
1983-84: Member, economic advisory council to the Prime Minister
1985: President, Indian Economic Association
January 15, 1985 - July 31, 1987 : Deputy chairman, Planning Commission
August 1, 1987 - November 10, 1990 : Secretary-general and commissioner, south commission, Geneva
December 10, 1990 - March 14, 1991 : Advisor to the Prime Minister on economic affairs
March 15, 1991 - June 20, 1991 : Chairman, UGC
June 21, 1991 - May 15, 1996 : Union finance minister
October 1991: Elected to Rajya Sabha from Assam on Congress ticket
June 1995: Re-elected to Rajya Sabha
1996 onwards: Member, Consultative Committee for the ministry of finance
August 1, 1996 - December 4, 1997 : Chairman, Parliamentary standing committee on commerce
March 21, 1998 onwards: Leader of the Opposition, Rajya Sabha
June 5, 1998 onwards: Member, committee on finance
August 13, 1998 onwards: Member, committee on rules
Aug 1998-2001: Member, committee of privileges 2000 onwards: Member, executive committee, Indian parliamentary group
June 2001: Re-elected to Rajya Sabha
Aug 2001 onwards: Member, general purposes committee
BOOKS:
India's Export Trends and Prospects for Self-Sustained Growth ? Clarendon Press, Oxford University, 1964; also published a large number of articles in various economic journals.
OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Adam Smith Prize, University of Cambridge, 1956
Padma Vibhushan, 1987
Euromoney Award, Finance Minister of the Year, 1993;
Asiamoney Award, Finance Minister of the Year for Asia, 1993 and 1994
INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNMENTS:
1966: Economic Affairs Officer
1966-69: Chief, financing for trade section, UNCTAD
1972-74: Deputy for India in IMF Committee of Twenty on International Monetary Reform
1977-79: Indian delegation to Aid-India Consortium Meetings
1980-82: Indo-Soviet joint planning group meeting
1982: Indo-Soviet monitoring group meeting
1993: Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting Cyprus 1993: Human Rights World Conference, Vienna
Now Pranabda's:
Position held in Union :
(i) Deputy Minister, Industrial Development
Govt. from February, 1973 to January, 1974.
(ii) Deputy Minister, Shipping and Transport
from January, 1974 to October, 1974.
(iii) Minister of State for Finance from October,
1974 to December, 1975.
(iv) Minister of Revenue and Banking
(Independent Charge) from December, 1975 to
March, 1977.
(v) Cabinet Minister of Commerce and Steel &
Mines from January, 1980 to January, 1982.
(vi) Cabinet Minister of Finance from January,
1982 to December, 1984 with additional charge
of Ministry of Commerce and Supply,
September to December 31, 1984.
(vii) Depurty Chairman, Planning Commission,
June 1991 to May, 1996.
(viii) Cabinet Minister of Commerce from January
1993 to February, 1995.
(ix) Cabinet Minister of External Affairs from
February, 1995 to May, 1996.
(x) Cabinet Minister of Defence, from 22nd
May, 2004.
In Parliament:
(i) Elected to Rajya Sabha July, 1969.
(ii) Re-elected to Rajya Sabha 1975,
1981,1993 and 1999. Elected to 14th Lok
Sabha on 13th May, 2004.
(iii) Deputy Leader, Congress Party in Rajya
Sabha 1978-80.
(iv) Leader of the House, Rajya Sabha 1980-
1985.
(v) 1996 onwards
(a) Member, Business Advisory
Committee
(b) Member, Committee on Privileges.
(c) Member, Committee on Rules.
(vi) Member, Consultative Committee for
External Affairs 1996-99.
(vii) Chairman, Department- related Parliamentary
Standing Committee on Science & Technology,
Environment & Forests 1997.
(viii) Chairman, Department-related Parliamentary
Standing Committee on Home Affairs, June 1998
onwards.
(ix) Leader of the House, Lok Sabha, June,
2004 till date.
In Congress Party
(i) Member, Congress Working Committee
(the highest policy making body of Indian
National Congress) from 27th January, 1978 to
18th January, 1986 and again from 10th August,
1997 till date.
(ii) President, West Bengal Pradesh Congress
Committee 1985 and from August, 2000 till
date.
(iii) Member, Central Parliamentary Board,
AICC 1978-1986.
(iv) Treasurer, All India Congress Committee,
1978-1979.
(v) Treasurer, Congress(I) Party in Parliament
1978-1979.
(vi) Chairman, Economic Advisory Cell, AICC.
1987-1989.
(vii) Chairman, Campaign Committee of AICC
for conducting National Elections to Parliament
in 1984, 1991, 1996 and 1998.
(viii) General Secretary, AICC 1998-1999.
(ix) Chairman, Central Election Coordination
Committee, AICC from 28th June, 1999
onwards.
(x) Member, Central Election Committee, AICC
from 12th December, 2001 onwards.
In International Organisations
Member:
(I) Board of Governors –
(a) International Monetary Fund 1982-1985.
(b) World Bank, 1982-1985
(c) Asian Development Bank, 1982-1985
(d) African Development Bank, 1982-1985.
(ii) Chairman, Group 24 (a Ministerial group attached to IMF and World Bank)
1984.
(iii) Presided over SAARC Council of Ministers Conference, May 1995 and
November 1995.
Foreign Delegations
Leader of Indian Delegations to:
(i) Colombo Plan Finance Ministers Conference, Singapore 1975 and
Colombo 1976.
(ii) Commonwealth Finance Ministers Conference, 1982, 1983 and
1984.
(iii) Annual General Meeting of World Bank and IMF in 1982, 1983 and
1984.
(iv) Annual General Meeting of Asian Development Bank, 1982, 1983
and 1984.
(v) Ministerial Conference of WTO, Marrakesh in 1994.
(vi) UN General Assembly in 1994 and 1995.
(vii) Social Summit at Copenhagen in 1995.
(viii) 40th Anniversary of Asian Conference, Bandug 1995.
(ix) Conference of Commonwealth Heads of Governments(CHOGAM),
Auckland 1996.
(x) Non-Aligned Foreign Ministers Conference at Carte-Ghana, 1995.
Honors and Distinctions conferred
(i) Rated as one of the best five Finance Ministers of the world for the
year 1984 according to a survey of Euro Money, journal published
from New York.
(ii) Conferred Best Parliamentarian Award for 1997.
(iii) His leadership in the Ministry of Finance and other Economic
Ministries was well acclaimed, nationally and internally. He was
considered as the key figure in formulating economic policies of the
nation for a long term. Under his stewardship India earned the
distinction of not withdrawing the last installment of IMF loan to the
extent of Us$1.1 billion. He was considered as ranking Minister
and presided over the Cabinet meeting of the Union in the absence
of the Prime Minister during 1980-1985.
Social and Cultural Activities
(i) President, Nikhil Bharat Banga Sahitya Sammelan, 1995-2001.
(ii) Chairman, Planning Board, Asiatic Society, Kolkata from 1984 to
1986 and 1992-1996.
(iii) Trustee, Bangiya Sahitya Parishad, 1984-1990.
(iv) Trustee, Bidhan Memorial Trust, Kolkata since 1998.
Book Published
(i) Midterm Poll –1969
(ii) Beyond Survival: Emerging Dimensions of Indian Economy – 1984
(iii) Off the Track –1987
(iv) Saga of Struggle and Sacrifice –1992
(v) Challenges Before the Nation (on Indian National Congress)- 1992.
Hopefully now you will also support me in Pranabda being the best choice for PM of our nation....Now I am going to end this here and is not going to write anything extra against Dr. Manmohan Singh as well as don't wanna reveal here why Pranabda even after being the best option is still not the PM coz the purpose of this post was just a comparative study....will do this rest stuff any other time...till that time you read it marathi and give your opinion about it!!
"Pranabda is man for all seasons while Dr. Manmohan Singh needs a madam Sonia to decide season for him!!(its my opinion only)"
Jai Hind!!
May be pranabda have better resume than Dr.Manmohan singh...But in politics parlence it hardly matters. For being a PM in india one need high public stature, charisma and ofcourse the performance(freebies too) that matters.
ReplyDeleteIn that account its Sonia Gandhi (irrespective of her native and affiliation from nehru Gandhi family) who is simply outstanding and suitable for that PM position eventhough she declined (I am not a follower or well wisher of nehru family).
Even today it's a remote controlled govt from 10 Janpath road(whether its finance or PMO issues).
I totally agree that Sonia Gandhi has the charisma as well as public stature and she is the most powerful women in India(none can deny this fact)....It was her decission to opt Dr Manmohan Singh as the PM and the reason is obvious...Pranabda(as far as I know and could get from his works) has always been an independent leader and this is the quality of this personality which prevented him from being PM inspite of having such great achievements..
ReplyDeleteYes,its our nation and the condition of politics here is interesting...and this is all because about 80% of us don't know what a common people can do in this area...we are unaware of our constitution as well those who are aware of it now knows how to break the laws..a cascaded situation...and this demands a new political structure !!