09-29-2006, 02:57 AM
<b>Shourie for PM?</b>
<i>Why not? He is perhaps the best candidate the BJP offers for the 2009 elections</i><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->What about Shourie?
Shourie himself would be surprised. He has never pushed himself in the PM race like Mahajan did or Jaitley and Swaraj continue to do. He is strictly not a people's person. He is a technocrat like Manmohan Singh but more rounded. He knows his economics as well as he knows law. He is as comfortable with security issues as he would be with trade matters. Indeed, there is nothing in government that he won't excel at.
He is a class above P.Chidambaram, and that is saying a lot. Chidambaram was a good trade minister, but not tough during the earliest WTO negotiations. He is an average finance minister, overshadowed by Manmohan Singh. Shourie would make an excellent finance minister, and being so thorough, he would be much better than Chidambaram at trade. Or home. Or the foreign ministry. Anywhere. Remember too. Shourie is a bona fide scholar. He holds an economics Ph.D. from Syracuse University.
Shourie is a fit because with someone handling party affairs, he is left free to govern. The RSS cannot be wished away after it perceived the six years of the NDA to be wayward. This arrangement, with a split between party and government leadership, appears like Manmohan Singh's arrangement with Sonia Gandhi. She is in charge here. The RSS would be if the BJP returned to power. As good or bad as the present arrangement is, the one with the BJP won't get any better or worse. But in Arun Shourie, you will have an outstanding PM candidate. Relatively young. Honest. Tough. Visionary. And deep. Arun Shourie is a deep man.
He doesn't come without disqualifications. He has never fought direct elections. He is not your average politician, which may indeed be a qualification. His negotiation skills are untested, although he can be persuasive. When he speaks in the Rajya Sabha, he commands complete attention. All said, in the circumstances, he seems the best suited BJP candidate for 2009.
<b>For emergent India, he is quite a remarkable prime minister to have</b>. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<i>Why not? He is perhaps the best candidate the BJP offers for the 2009 elections</i><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->What about Shourie?
Shourie himself would be surprised. He has never pushed himself in the PM race like Mahajan did or Jaitley and Swaraj continue to do. He is strictly not a people's person. He is a technocrat like Manmohan Singh but more rounded. He knows his economics as well as he knows law. He is as comfortable with security issues as he would be with trade matters. Indeed, there is nothing in government that he won't excel at.
He is a class above P.Chidambaram, and that is saying a lot. Chidambaram was a good trade minister, but not tough during the earliest WTO negotiations. He is an average finance minister, overshadowed by Manmohan Singh. Shourie would make an excellent finance minister, and being so thorough, he would be much better than Chidambaram at trade. Or home. Or the foreign ministry. Anywhere. Remember too. Shourie is a bona fide scholar. He holds an economics Ph.D. from Syracuse University.
Shourie is a fit because with someone handling party affairs, he is left free to govern. The RSS cannot be wished away after it perceived the six years of the NDA to be wayward. This arrangement, with a split between party and government leadership, appears like Manmohan Singh's arrangement with Sonia Gandhi. She is in charge here. The RSS would be if the BJP returned to power. As good or bad as the present arrangement is, the one with the BJP won't get any better or worse. But in Arun Shourie, you will have an outstanding PM candidate. Relatively young. Honest. Tough. Visionary. And deep. Arun Shourie is a deep man.
He doesn't come without disqualifications. He has never fought direct elections. He is not your average politician, which may indeed be a qualification. His negotiation skills are untested, although he can be persuasive. When he speaks in the Rajya Sabha, he commands complete attention. All said, in the circumstances, he seems the best suited BJP candidate for 2009.
<b>For emergent India, he is quite a remarkable prime minister to have</b>. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->