When Manmohan Singh said ‘History will be kinder to me than the media’

“History will be kinder to me”, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh uttered these famous words during a presser in New Delhi in January 2014, months before he demitted office. Facing a volley of questions about his leadership, Manmohan Singh had asserted that his leadership was not weak history would be kinder to him than what the media projected at that time.

“I do not believe that I have been a weak Prime Minister … I honestly believe that history will be kinder to me than the contemporary media or for that matter the Opposition in Parliament… Given the political compulsions, I have done the best I could do,” Singh had said in one of his last media interaction before the BJP came to power after the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections.

“…I have done as well as I could do according to the circumstances… It is for history to judge what I have done or what I have not done,” Singh, who was the prime minister for 10 years till Narendra Modi came to power on May 26, 2014.