Download or read book Dr. Manmohan Singh - A Tempestuous Tenure written by Aashay Gune and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the past thirty years, Dr Manmohan Singh has occupied a pivotal position on the Indian economic and political scenario. While his appointment as the Union Finance Minister in the year 1991 was unexpected, his path-breaking economic reforms of introducing the policies of liberalisation and globalisation remain the plinth on which the Indian economy stands today.His selection as Prime Minister in 2004 was a surprise as Sonia Gandhi, as she declined the position, conferred the responsibility on him. The Indian economic ship sailed briskly under his leadership and braved the 2008 global recession and transformed the rural sector at the same time. However, at the end of his tenure, he became a target of an extensive defamation campaign from the Bhartiya Janata Party and its supporters. The agitation of Anna Hazare and Arvind Kejriwal played a significant role in this campaign. The media also had its role to play. As a consequence, his tenure was stormy, and this book attempts to understand the sequence of events that finally created a fertile ground for Narendra Modi to be the Prime Minister of the country. The book tries to examine the role of the anti-corruption movement, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the media in ensuring the character assassination of Dr Singh, Sonia Gandhi and the Congress Party.However, the policies, decisions and flagship programs of his government were hard to ignore for the new government under Narendra Modi. Apart from Dr Singh