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Thirteenth Prime Minister

As clearly mentioned in the article that Dr. Singh is the sucessor to Mr Vajpayee. The link http://en.wikipedia.org/Atal_Behari_Vajpayee decribes Mr Vajpayee as the 10th PM of India. I m not sure about this, but would like someone who knows about this to review the articles, so as to rectify the errors if any. Thanks.

As detailed on Prime Minister of India, Mr. Vajpayee served two terms. When he took office for the first time, he was the 10th prime minister of India. There were two other prime ministers (as well as Mr. Vajpayee's second term) before Mr. Singh became the 13th prime minister. The previously mentioned article has a nice tablhttp://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Talk:Manmohan_Singh&action=edite. User:Gaurav

First Sikh Prime Minister

I'm sure I'm not alone in having assumed that the two previous PMs called "Singh" were Sikhs, too. Could someone knowledgable add an explanation, either on this page or the other Singhs'? Tnx, –Hajor

VP was not: ; CC I can't find anything on. Markalexander100 04:24, 22 May 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your search efforts. Misplaced Pages (I should have looked) has, of course, an article on Singh, which offers the following explanation: "While all male Sikhs are Singhs, not all Singhs are Sikh. It was a name in use before the Sikhs and signified someone of high caste. Therefore you often get Hindu Singhs who are not Sikhs." So, another preconception bites the dust. –Hajor 15:20, 22 May 2004 (UTC)

In the case of Hindus, Singh perhaps has to do with the Sanskrit word for lion. The Hindu warrior caste believed themselves to be just like a lion in valour on the battlefield. In the neighbouring country of Nepal, the surname Singh is adopted by the landed gentry, just like Tagore in India.

Another interesting Singh is in the noun Singapore. I have always believed that Singapore is formed by the Sanskrit words for lion(Singh) and city(pur). So, Singapore is a city of lions. - User:Kanden 23:42, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

regarded

Why was the word "regarded" bolded? Quadell (talk) 18:33, May 24, 2004 (UTC)

In Gurumukhi ?

Why Manmohan's name in Gurumukhi ? Should PV Narasimha Rao's name written in Telugu and Devegowda's in Kannada ? - Kesava 07:08, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Quite possibly? 62.252.224.12 16:16, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Yeah. That would fit very much for a multilingual country like India. -- Sundar 05:34, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

Definitely. We should encourage people who can write in those languages to add such names as appropriate. QuartierLatin1968

Lok Sabha

The article notes his defeat at South Delhi in 1999. Where is his current constituency? Adam 09:39, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

He's not a member of Lok Sabha, but is a member of Rajya Sabha from Assam according to this. The notion of a constituency is not associated with a Rajya Sabha member as he and others represent a state and not a single constituency. -- Sundar (talk · contribs) 05:04, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)

Is there no requirement that the PM be a member of the Lok Sabha? Is he the first PM not to be a member? Adam 06:25, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The only requirement is that the PM should be a member of either of the houses of Indian Parliament. If s/he is not a member s/he must get elected within six months of appointment as PM or a minister in the cabinet. I think he's not the first Indian PM who is not a member of the Lok Sabha. -- Sundar (talk · contribs) 06:38, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. This should be noted in the article. Adam 06:45, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Please explain yourself

To the user who keeps reverting my valid comments, using multiple sockpuppets, please note that the wikipdeia personal attack policy is directed at other users and not persons on whom the article is based. Please explain to me:

1. Why I shouldn't reinsert my comments here
2. Since you keep reverting me, why I shouldn't return the favor and do some liberal reverting of my own on your contributions?
3. Why I shouldn't add the following entry in this article:

==Leaked CIA Report==

According to a classified report by the CIA that was recently leaked to the Washington Post, Dr. Singh underwent a nervous breakdown at age 35, when during a routine medical check up, it was revealed that his longtime partner and wife, Lady Devi, was in fact, a man. Dr. Singh claimed that he always pumped Devi with the lights off and so he never actually saw her naked. But to his credit, even after this revelation that his wife is a man, Dr. Singh forgave her, or rather him, and continues to live with her/him happily even after many many years. Since this report has become public knowledge, Dr. Singh has become an extremely popular figure among the gay/lesbian communities of India, which constitute a substantial portion of the population.

If you are speechless, I will proceed to reinsert my comments here. Awaiting your reply, The Village Idiot 20:31, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

I think you imagine pretty good. Keep it up. --IncMan 13:56, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

First off, Manmohan Singh is not popular amongst the gay/lesbian community in India. I doubt if any politician is, except maybe Omar Abdullah, Rahul Gandhi or Shabnam mausi (none of who are gay, btw). I don't know where you got that rubbish from. Secondly, his wife's name is Gurcharan Kaur not Lady Devi. --Notquiteauden 21:28, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Third, it's a faux pas for you to write about 'her'. --someone else 00:45, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Urdu

Why cant we keep his name in Urdu on the main page? He was after all educated in Urdu, and it is an India language. --Notquiteauden 21:30, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Urdu is an Indian language and (with due respect to Urdu) so are hundreds of others. But, I didn't know that his complete early education was in Urdu. If this was true, we can mention it somewhere in the article. But, I would personally like to have only Gurmukhi script (since it's his mother tongue since his mother tongue Punjabi is commonly written using that script) and not even Hindi Devanagari as otherwise it doesn't look good to read with too much non-English text in the English wikipedia. -- Sundar 04:06, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

Gurmukhi is not a language. It is a script used to write a language. Many people confuse Punjabi and Gurmukhi. They are two different things. Punjabi can be written in any script. 65.26.247.222 (talk · contribs) August 16, 2005.

Yes you're right. I'm sorry. I now correct it to Gurmukhi script. -- Sundar 08:14, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

The blue turbaned bandit strikes again - this time at this own people

The sikhs of the world had high hopes for the Indian prime minster, a fellow sikh. But now he has stabbed them in the back as well, just like he stabbed Pakistan in the back when he went sailing to the US. I'm referring to the report just released by his government which says that NO ONE is going to be persecuted for the 3000 sikhs who were mercilessly robbed of their most precious possession, their lives, after the ensuing riots that followed the extermination of that fat ass cow called Indira Ghandi, who was sent packing the hell out of this planet by the self-sacrificing act of a courageous and bold sikh, who was her bodyguard and who struck her down. I wonder what other ugly surprises this guy has up his sleeve for anyone who makes the deadly (sometimes fatal), mistake of trusting him. The Village Idiot 00:01, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

POV

As an American university student stereotype, I know next to nothing about Dr. Singh or his career. But the article seems needlessly one-sided. It implies, for example, that Singh singlehandedly saved the economy. THis almost never is the case. And I can think of very few people who deserve a statement as broad as "held in high esteem, and regard, all over the country and the world." The Village Idiot's comments do not belong in the article, but they imply that some people find things about Singh to criticize. These need to be mentioned in the article. Fishal 04:37, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

I totally agree. RexNL 02:41, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

I'm also an American, but I know a lot about Singh (on account of my parents' being from India). You are right about the lack of a NPOV. I went through the article and made it sound more like what Singh actually did, and I removed the NPOV sign. However, you should read a bit about Singh elsewhere, like on the BBC. While he didn't do everything, he did engineer the economic liberalization package that was the first step toward a series of future liberalizations. (Sort of like Deng Xiao Ping). After Sonia Gandhi decided not to take the PMship, the markets in Bombay plummetted, but they rose sharply a few days later when she announced that Singh would become PM instead of her. Read what I wrote and see if it's okay.

foreign minister

K. Natwar Singh is no longer External Affairs Minister, right? But who is his replacement, or is the position still vacant? In any case, the cabinet list is outdated. – ugen64 20:34, 8 November 2005 (UTC)