Dr Manmohan Singh will live on
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Kajal Chatterjee
Contd from last Saturday
But certainly the picture of that era was not as dreadful as today and most importantly not a single prominent personality was found to be encouraging/instigating the mischief makers or defending their indefensible acts. In contrast, today those in power are found to garland the "cow-vigilantes" alleged to kill innocents or instigate their followers to shower bullets ('Goli Maaro') upon peaceful demonstrators opposing CAA ! If somebody invokes 'Shamshan-Kabristan', another calls for "revenge" against ... ! No, the Manmohan Singh era didn't see such a situation.
Not only did Singh use to stay at the farthest distance from communalism, his Government record in the front of moral cleanliness is also extraordinary.
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Contd from last Saturday
But certainly the picture of that era was not as dreadful as today and most importantly not a single prominent personality was found to be encouraging/instigating the mischief makers or defending their indefensible acts. In contrast, today those in power are found to garland the "cow-vigilantes" alleged to kill innocents or instigate their followers to shower bullets ('Goli Maaro') upon peaceful demonstrators opposing CAA ! If somebody invokes 'Shamshan-Kabristan', another calls for "revenge" against ... ! No, the Manmohan Singh era didn't see such a situation.
Not only did Singh use to stay at the farthest distance from communalism, his Government record in the front of moral cleanliness is also extraordinary.
(To be contd)