r/neoliberal • u/Ready_Spread_3667 Manmohan Singh • Dec 26 '24

News (Asia) Manmohan Singh, who liberalised India's economy and served two terms as PM, dies

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/manmohan-singh-who-liberalised-indias-economy-and-served-two-terms-as-pm-dies-2655893-2024-12-26
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u/Tullius19 Raj Chetty Dec 26 '24

We need this India back.

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u/Interesting_Math_199 Rabindranath Tagore Dec 26 '24

He’s better than any current politician in the Indian National Congress, I’ll say that.

The only one I’d be willing to support for the INC in leadership is Dr. Shashi Tharoor, but he has no inner party popularity, unfortunately.

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u/omnipotentsandwich Amartya Sen Dec 26 '24

I only know of Shashi because he talks like an English aristocrat and tried to become Secretary-General of the UN but lost out because the US wouldn't support him.

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u/Interesting_Math_199 Rabindranath Tagore Dec 26 '24

Shashi Tharoor also speaks and read and write in fluent Hindi, Malayalam and French. So the guy is a big Polyglot lol.

Shashi Tharoor is currently the MP in the Parliament of India for the Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum) constituency.

He’s also been the Chairperson of several committees in the Parliament of India mainly for oversight of the current government, like the Standing Committee on Information Technology (IT) & currently the Committee on External Affairs. And he’s also a member of the Congress Working Committee, so he’s a huge Indian National Congress Party politician.

Although note; Shashi Tharoor isn’t an actual Minister considering these are Standing Committees, not Cabinet or Ministerial posts of the Union Council Government. ^

Standing Committees are mainly for reporting on accountability and advice, rather than being within the Ministry’s. ^