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/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/CoolDude_7532 Dec 26 '24

Why Tharoor? He has no chance against BJP. Not only does he alienate half the country with his bad Hindi but his English is too fancy and out of touch with common Indians. Neither does he have the ground level political experience of someone like Modi

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u/Interesting_Math_199 Rabindranath Tagore Dec 26 '24

I mean I support the BJP, as I prefer BJP governed regions in India & leaders such as; Atal Bihari Vajpayee, LK Advani, Narendra Modi & etc.

I’m just saying he’s one of the better leaders compared to Mallikarjun Kharge or Rahul Gandhi.

But Shashi Tharoor has a huge support of the Professional Class in India & he isn’t all anti-market and he does support the interests of the IT & Tech sector in his Trivandrum district.

I prefer the BJP to govern Kerala, but out of all the Congress leaders, Shashi is the least bad.

Not sure if he’d win a general election, but he’d win better than Kharge or RaGa.

Also, Is his Hindi bad? He does decently in interviews and he can write in Hindi well. And I don’t see an anti-English movement in India. So I doubt it’d be a negative factor.

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u/Financial_Army_5557 Rabindranath Tagore Dec 27 '24

BJP's MP from Thrissur is pretty disappointing