A MISTAKE OF SORTS?

The Govt. run at the center by the UPA under the leadership of Dr. Manmohan Singh, has always been under the scrutiny when it comes to foreign policy matters. Right from the time of Mr. Natwar Singh to Mr. Pranab Mukarjee to Mr. S.M. Krishna now. This govt has misserably failed in framing its foriegn policy and repeatedly taking a beating on a day to day basis. During this session of parliment alone the opposition has staged a walkout twice just to show their dissapoinment with the govt for its misserable handling of various foriegn policy issues.

The biggest missery of them all is the Indo - US nuke dela, this still comes by every now and then to haunt the Congress led Govt. Recently at the G8 summit, it was pronounced that India should sign the CTBT and the NPT before the G8 community could actually have a commercial nuke treaty for civilian purposes. Our rights sacrificed? But when the USA secretary of state, Mrs. Hillary Clinton made her trip down to India, she said in interview after interview that the USA cannot ask the Indian Govt. to sign the CTBT unless they sign it themselves first (finally they have realised it I guess!!!). Only good out of this episode, the opposition seems to be scoring points.

Next, The Indo-Pak joint statement at Egypt. Reports say, the secretary level talks failed and in a hurry te Prime Ministers of the two coutries were desperate to give a joint statement and the Indians let the word Baluchistan feature in the joint statement leading to hell a lot of trouble for the Govt. The Pakistan media reports now claim that the Pakistan govt. has credible evidance of India directly supporting the Balooch terrorists. Of course immediately dismissed by the MEA, India as mere allegations. But the hard reality, has India been ambushed on the Balooch issue? Only time will answer.

My question is, why was Manmohan Singh so desperate in having S.M. Krishna as the External Affairs Minister? Of course the Prime Minister is also to be equally blamed for the above two incidents. Still, was Manmohan Singh desperate enough in having a failed Chief Minister of Karnataka at such a key portfolio? Or, was it the decision of the Congress supremo? Answering to the question of whether Dr. Manmohan Singh is a WEAK Prime Minister.