History will be kind to me… What did former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh say to the media last time?

New Delhi : In his/her last press conference as Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh had said that history will be kind to me. When he/she was asked this, it is said about you that you could not control the ministers in the cabinet. Your views were not listened to and you remained silent? To this Manmohan Singh replied, ‘I believe that history will be kinder to me than the present media. I cannot tell you everything that happens in the cabinet. There are compulsions of alliance.

I speak when needed

The opposition had been taking a dig at Manmohan Singh by calling him/her Maun Mohan. he/she also answered this in that press conference. Then he/she had said that as far as speaking is concerned, whenever there is a need, I have definitely been speaking in the party forum and will continue to speak in future also.

uproar over corruption

Manmohan Singh’s second term as PM was spent in discussions of corruption. There came a time when Rahul Gandhi tore the ordinance of the Manmohan Singh government. Manmohan Singh’s statement that Muslims have the first right on the country’s resources was also discussed a lot in the Lok Sabha elections held this year. In his/her speech at the National Development Council meeting in 2006, Manmohan Singh talked about empowering all the backward and minority sections of the society, especially Muslims, to ensure their equal share in the benefits of development. he/she also said that he/she has the first right on the resources of the country.

Denied the existence of Ram, BJP kept attacking

BJP kept attacking Congress by saying that Manmohan Singh government had denied the existence of Lord Ram. At the time of UPA-1, the Manmohan government had given an affidavit in the Supreme Court on the basis of the report of the Archaeological Survey of India that this bridge (Ram Setu) is only a natural structure and there is no evidence of it being man-made. However, later in the year 2022, the BJP government at the Center also said in the Parliament in response to a question related to ‘Ram Setu’, ‘Through space technology, we have been able to discover small islands and some pieces made of limestone. Although we cannot say with certainty that these pieces would have been part of the bridge, but some kind of continuity is visible in them.

‘Hindutva way of life’ was described as flawed

Nearly four years after stepping down from the post of Prime Minister, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met the late Supreme Court judge, Justice J.S. Verma’s famous but controversial judgment in the 1990s faulted the ‘Hindutva way of life’. he/she then criticized this old decision, saying that the judiciary, as an institution, should not lose sight of its primary duty to safeguard the secular spirit of the Constitution.

Modi had praised

In April this year, when Manmohan Singh said goodbye to formal politics, while speaking in the Rajya Sabha, Prime Minister Modi had said, ‘I remember, there was a voting opportunity in that House in the last few days. It was known that Vijay was going to be from the treasury bench, the difference was also huge. But Dr. Manmohan Singh ji came in a wheelchair and voted. he/she is an example of how conscious an MP is about his/her responsibilities. he/she is an inspiring example. Not only this, sometimes when elections were held for committee members, they came to vote in a wheelchair. The question is not to whom he/she had come to give power. I believe that he/she had come to strengthen democracy.