Honest Prime minister : Dishonest Governance

No one, even from opposition parties, can even doubt about personal honesty of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan singh. But compulsion of blackmailing alliance-politics has undoubtedly pushed India in dishonest governance with regional allies making Prime Minister dance to their tunes for running governance for their own personal benefits. Most recent example is unethical appointment of PJ Thomas as new Chief Vigilance Commissioner.

Outgoing Chief Vigilance Commissioner Prityush Sinha has rightly expressed that increasing wealth of selected individuals is main reason for putting the country at shameful 84th position in global honesty-ranking with honesty index of just 3.4 points out of total ten. Everyone knows that our politicians in general including even many ministers are notorious for accumulating huge wealth by corrupt means. It is of no use of having an honest Prime Minister if he cannot induce honesty in governance-system. Charity should begin at home. Dr Manmohan singh should launch a crash initiative to unearth undisclosed wealth and income of those in power and politics. Then he as Prime Minister will get stability directly from people rather than from blackmailing allies. His efforts will always gain strength from media and civil society.