Advani called Manmohan Singh the weakest prime minister of India. He had to do that to show that he is the iron man of India. Though there is no comparison between Sardar Patel and him.

Manmohan Singh is accused of turning to Sonia Gandhi for everything and Advani says Mammohan Singh is being remote controlled by Sonia. So, what is wrong with it?

It is no secret that Manmohan Singh is sitting in for Sonia Gandhi as the prime minister of India. The whole world knows it. Advani knows it. And, why is Manmohan Singh sitting in for Sonia? Because, the BJP refused to accept the verdict of the people and it blocked the legitimate claim of Sonia to the Prime Minister’s chair by throwing tantrums.

For those who have forgotten…here is the story. Sushma Swaraj went all the way to Bellary to fight Sonia. She thought the people would support what she projected herself as the “Desi” bahu against the “Videshi” bahu. What she forgot was that in Hinduism a husband takes his wife for an “Ardangini”. Sushma’s ploy did not work and she lost the election to Sonia.

But, Sushma is a bad loser. Now, that she could not beat Sonia at the hustings, she started throwing tantrums. She said: “She cannot call, Sonia…Madam Prime Minister, if she becomes the PM. She said: She would shave off her head, don only white clothes, sleep on the floor and survive on grams and water if Sonia became the prime minister. She also vowed not to grow her hair so long as Sonia remains the prime minister.

For some strange reason, neither Sushma nor the BJP had any problem with Sonia being the leader of the opposition for a full term. The position of the leader of the opposition in considered to be at par with that of a cabinet minister. In other words, what they were trying to convey was that it is fine for Sonia to be a minister but it is not done if she wants to be the prime minister.

In the face of all this, Sonia had the grace to renounce the prime minsiter’s office. That took the wind out of the sails of BJP. The entire top brass went underground to evade the questions of the media as to what they had to say about Sonia renouncing the prime minister’s office.

So, Sonia is the real prime minister of the people. Manmohan Singh is sitting in for her.

What is wrong if Manmohan Singh turns to her for advice?

If at all we have to pick the weakest prime minister amongst those who completed their full term (there is no point in involving prime ministers who served for a short while), it was Vajpayee. Under his regime, Pakistan dared to attack India for the first time, after the drubbing it received from India in 1971. Under him maximum number of terrorist attacks including the attack on the Indian Parliament and hijacking of IC-814. Under him we had the one of the worst carnage in recent history…the post Godhra riots.

How weak Vajpayee was, is evident from the fact that he went to Gujarat after the riots and spoke of Raj Dharma which was a hint (he was too weak to make a direct comment againt Narendra Modi) that the way Modi had handled the situation was not appropriate. But, the moment he landed in Delhi, he lost his tongue. This has never happened with Manmohan Singh.

Yes, Manmohan Singh has a remote control in Sonia but that remote control is legitimate. But, Vjapayee’s remote controls were littered all over the place…at the party president’s office, at the Home Ministry, at Nagpur, in Gujarat and god knows where…

So, who is the weakest prime minister of India?