The newspapers reported that PM Manmohan Singh has been checked 'inside out' and declared fit to travel. Well,if you think it is to pay the ‘aam-admi' a visit in some remote Indian Village,and see for himself the workings of his government, forget it – the seat next to Obama is vacant at the UN in New York and also at Pittsburg in Pennsylvania.Man! this is the best ever PM of India who is constantly talking to India –from outside India, thanking them for the support and making him visible after five invisibly challenged years!

Has anybody noticed that we in India are being cheated BIG-time? The very high educated, upright, awfully clean, extremely honest, incorruptible, recession pill prescribing economist Doctor has been very successfully packaged and straight-jacketed in the Prime Minister’s chair. After the recent elections, the Congress has learnt that it is best to leave only the PMs’ chair to Dr. Manmohan Singh and the rest-the people of India, to a Mr.Rahul Gandhi (& family). How do you do this? Simple, keep the Man busy sitting with world leaders outside the Country, with an extremely well-dressed External Affairs Minister travelling ‘cattle class’ to book the seats in advance, while Prince Rahul eats, sleeps, wakes-up and bathes with the down-trodden neglected people of India in some remote Village, building up the votes that could count for the next elections. It is damn convenient that you have plush upholstered cool seats abroad and simple rope cots, floorbeds and mosquitoe- infested regions in interior India.

While all this happens: the Chinese are playing checkers with our ever porus borders and even claiming parts of ours as theirs, how dare?; Pakistanis are bowling rockets into Punjab and getting away with it as Champions, Wow! ; Naxalities are stick-working internal cauldrons hoping to brew Getafix magic potions, Ouch!; veteran Indian nuclear scientists are hitting sixers, nuking our own nuclear wisdom; The Commonwealth Games are in urgent needof some real 'brain wealth' to be unleashed. Meanwhile, the Government Netas have realized that despite there once being a certain half-naked Gandhi who taught us so many austerity lessons, connected so well with all of India, that the best we can do is travel economy class! Aaah!

Mahatma Gandhi travelled the length & breath of India as a common man, encouraging the villages to develop,to live in hygiene, to built toilets rather than squat in the fields and to educate their children. If Rahul Gandhi is ensuring that development schemes are reaching the lowest strata then he is doing well. If he is identifying bottlenecks and monitoring schemes, then he is doing something worthwhile. If he is coming up with suggestions that would make his Dad’s famous 'Mumbai One Rupee' trickle down to the deserving- as a full one hundred paisa instead of part thereof, then he is doing real good. If he is ‘merely sleeping’ in the villages ‘for stage pictures’ then there is a problem.

For a start, Rahul Gandhi should show the 'aam-admi' and the urban Indian his skills in organizing the Commonwealth Games, which requires a performance akin to that displayed by a Rajiv Gandhi during the Asiad.

The work that needs to be done back home is of epic proportions, which as a minimum requires 100% of the Prime Minister to reach down to the bottom most. There has never been so much of a disconnect between a Prime Minister and his people. There seems to be a clear Congress game plan of divide & rule, of great power without responsibility, of keeping a Man where they think he should be. Wake-up Man!

PS: I reckon the next BIG event on the Congress Diary is gonna be the 'Wedding of Rahul Gandhi' so timed to win a blockbuster Election! Watch this Space!