How web reacted to Washington Post article calling PM 'ineffectual'

The Washington Post on Wednesday said that no apology has been offered for an article written by the India bureau chief which called Manmohan Singh a 'silent' Prime Minister who has become 'a tragic figure'. Take a look at reactions from netizens on the article slamming the PM...

The Washington Post on Wednesday said that no apology has been offered for an article written by the India bureau chief which called Manmohan Singh a 'silent' Prime Minister who has become 'a tragic figure'.

TV channels claimed that the Prime Minister's Office has sought an apology from the paper and said that its demand was accepted but the Washington Post vehemently denied it.

Simon Denyer, the bureau chief, in a tweet from his personal account responded to a reader saying: "@KabirTaneja Its not true. No threats were issued from their side, no apology was offered from mine".

After the Time magazine dubbed Manmohan Singh an "underachiever", the Washington Post article criticised him as a 'silent' Prime Minister who has become 'a tragic figure'.

"... the image of the scrupulously honorable, humble and intellectual technocrat has slowly given way to a completely different one: a dithering, ineffectual bureaucrat presiding over a deeply corrupt government," the article said.

The UPA 2 government has been under tremendous pressure over the controversy surrounding the CAG report over the coal blocks allocation which stated that they caused a loss of Rs. 1.86 lakh crore to the exchequer.

A belligerent Opposition has been demanding the resignation of the Prime Minister over coal row and has disrupted Parliament stalling both Houses.

File photo of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Mumbai. AFP

A screen grab of the Washington Post story.