Arjun Singh badly wants the prime Ministerial chair!

The good Prime Minister is hale and getting heartier all the time, after the heart operation. The gods be thanked for that! The momentary excitement in PM hopefuls must be dying down. And there are many hopefuls in the UPA government. They play games and jostle to get into the right position to step into prime ministership, as soon as the slightest chance comes their way.

Arjun Singh does not speak much. Even Soniaji is afraid of his silences. God only knows what the wily old fox might be upto? The tsunami he had triggered off by announcing the OBC reservations in institutions of higher learning had everyone stumped, including Madam. And Arjun Singhji did this not because the inequalities faced by the OBCs tears at his heart, but because by this one master stroke he had become the messiah of all the OBCs in India.

A few days back Arjun Singh delivered another bomb. He said that the Batla House encounter should be re-investigated, much to the delight of the Muslim community. A couple of years back he had said there should be reservations for Muslims on their backward status. The guy is trying to build a Muslim-OBC base.

Soniaji is never going to make such a person the PM. It would threaten the chances of Rahul baba in the future. The reason she has chosen Manmohan Singhji as the PM is that he has no political support base. He is not in the Lok Sabha. He is in the Rajya Sabha. If he had fought a Lok Sabha election five years back, it is possible he might have lost. The man is intellectual, but hardly an orator that has the aam janta eating out his hands.

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