It is most disconcerting for me to hear that Dr Manmohan Singh is batting for Mr Montek Singh Ahluwalia for the post of Minister of Finance. Mr Ahluwalia is an accountant’s accountant, knows the cost of everything but the value of nothing. This proposed shifting of Mr Ahluwalia from the Planning Commission to the Ministry of Finance is a retrograde step and is the death knell for the progressive measures of the earlier UPA regime, particularly the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Mr Ahluwalia cannot see beyond the tip of his nose and he is bound to mark the scheme down merely as a subsidy. The next step will be to abolish it, at the first sign of any requirement of belt tightening. The rural voters did not vote for the Congress for this.
Raghuram Ekambaram
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