The Enigma That Was Narasimha Rao

[@mahendrabhandari5469]

Shri P.V. Narshiaraoji was the most intelligent and Architect of Modern and Financially Strong India. Salute to such a great leader.

[@abhishekkrishna3902]

one southern leader became pm for full term and India saw a great change.. India needs the same one now

[@hastonfernandes5863]

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[@NikhilRatnaNeuro]

The honesty of PV is well articulated in his own writings and speakings. We don't need evaluation from sycophants. He knew what he was guilty of. He had no qualms. why should a true statesman or a patriot be fair to a dynastic party? Is that democratic? We respect him and be grateful for what he did. and many thanks to Vinay Sitapati for being factually elaborate and apparently unbiased

[@sagnikbanerjee6644]

PV Narsimha Rao Sahab must be awarded "Bharat Ratna" for his contributions to the nation....

[@sriranganaidu6222]

At 14.20 Jairam Ramesh said PVN does not have any opposition within and outside the party At 19.56 he again said PVN does not have support from Congress and other outside parties... A congress party leader disowning his own party's PM, This shows PVN has done something right for the nation... PVN was a great PM but history forgets him because he was not a puppet of GANDHI'S...

[@SureshK-lx6cx]

Well said, most of the congressmen hate PV because at some point he stopped being a stooge of the italian lady.

[@harshvardhanpathak6372]

He was great..unfortunately deliberately tried to be forgotten

[@kpashow84]

He was an Indira supporter but not the Italian lady....

[@doesntgiveash4378]

Did you even hear jr Ramesh. On the first occasion he's talking about the liberalisation and on the second occasion he's talking about the babri demolition. Please refer to the context. You may agree or disagree but please don't misquote.

[@bharavi.manakonduru408]

Puppets of the sonia

[@ayatirajselvarajan9316]

My remarks as a layman. The fruits of the economic reforms unleashed by Sri P V Narasimha Rao and Dr. Manmohan Singh are being enjoyed by us and by the country at large for ages to come. Their contribution is exceptional. In all earnestness,the least that the country could do -despite Babri Masjid demolition (which is a complex issue for which PVN aline cannot be held responsible )- is to award Bharat Ratna to each of them. Surely,when Vajpayee got the award, these people truly deserve it more. Let every right thnkin

[@ayatirajselvarajan9316]

Thinking countryman ponder

[@adityabhakat0236]

He got it conferred today

[@Deveshi.A.]

These guys are paid artists of Italian Moran , PV is intellectual gaint and we respect him for what he did for the nation

[@rsraman3273]

Srikanth A very honest & dispassionate assessment about the great National leader ...He had the political will to implement timely various action Particularly liberalisation of trade.including foreign one. He started weeding out corrupt politicians..including his party men. They all took revenge collectively on this great person. stooped to the worst level of barbaric manner even in His death. RS Raman Mumbai

[@venkateswerluganji6750]

P V NARASIHMA RAO WAS A GREAT PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA AND HE IS FATHER OF ECONOMIC REFORMS IN INDIA. SALUTE TO HIM.

[@sathya205]

I even today remember SRI. P.V. NARASIMHA RAO!! It's my every day activity.

[@MrPoornakumar]

What the heck charisma got to do with being a PM? If Indians expect that they are wrong. He was a failure as CM of AP & on many such posts. But as PM he excelled & the world was impressed by his performance. Again the Indian public are stupid, I'd say. You don't use a gold vessel of pot as a cooking vessel or for hauling water from a well. It is meant to be for auspicious occasions, to impress people & hold flowers. I'd say even now Indians could understand him or why he did what. Only they are there to reap the benefits. They conveniently forget the days when they had to wait for 5 years for a mere telephone connection, book for a scooter for another 5 years & no foreign cars on the road as of now.

[@vivekpmc1992]

There was nothing in any of the congress leaders as long as any Gandhi was powerful in party,fortunately Gandhi’s were non existent at that time otherwise we still had Punjab crisis,our economy would have like Somalia and a lot ....best PM ever has produced (real first non-congress govt).

[@rashmikolluru]

Sir point to be noted is he was the first cm to have introduced a law for the welfare of poor and against the rich including himself ie;land ceiling act in which his own land has been seized and hence was not favoured by the well off communities in AP. Hence Indira Gandhi replaced him. All he cared for is not his personal reputation but our country and country needs PM like him to let us taste the bitter pill for a better tomorrow. Without considering the majority consensus any privileged for the minority population can any time amount to appeasement.

[@priyakonnur246]

Raji R d

[@karanampradeep7704]

U moron he is not failur of CM, he brought many reforms during united AP

[@saivamsikrishnareddy3410]

An absolute true collosal personifies true potray of politician p.v.narasimha rao

[@aks2223]

sai vamsi krishna reddy - Very true

[@Beh-Man]

Sitapati's book clearly puts the facts and demonstrates the greatness of PV. It also highlights his shortcoming but gives out how well the man knew of that and worked around it.

[@9234-y7y]

Jai ram Ramesh is also afraid of Mrs Gandhi like any other Congress men to come and give the credit for the man.

[@ashishsapkalUCIrvine]

This is better than Netflix - superb debate. Kudos to all involved

[@nathansekhar2840]

Excellent presentation. Panellist Vinay Sitapathi is excellent analysis. Godbole an excellent Bureaucrat & Ramesh an eloquent Congressman. When we see in retrospect the tenure of Dr Manmohan Singh the same pressure from Sonia Gandhi as the Extra Constitutional was exerted like a family Mafia of Sicilian tradition. Due to Narasimha Rao Economic Orientation due to IMF directives & Finance Minister Dr Manmohan Singh most congressmen who benefited from the Licence Raj opposed him result he was isolated in the congress & humiliated even when he died. Narendra Modi of BJP in his tenure as PM changed the cotree of MSE & Traders and small retailers of Vachpai & Advani Industry & Technology was given Focus. It started with Defence Services using upgrades as a Tool to leverage the Barganing chip to set up shop in India by TOT with partnering with the Indian Corporate & Govt PSUs complimenting beach other and let Contemprory Technology perculate later and subsequently organise Agricultural products as support services in Defence & upgrade skills in employment. Nathan Sekhar Sydney, Australia.

[@hellonarenk]

We people credit him, who cares dead Congress party now.

[@pra48940]

Here they were saying reforms taken by P V Narasimha were of late Rajiv Gandhis's (which he couldn't do when in office and the person who lead the country to such a devastating crisis) and all the credit must be given to late Rajiv Gandhi for the success of the reforms taken by P V Narasimha Rao..And portraying him for the babri demolition.. Its clear that these congress people are demonizing his Charisma...

[@postwala2667]

PV deserves a Bharat Ratna. We all know MMS is incapable man with MNREGA. Nobody trusts these idiots like Jairam, Mani and the worse of the breed Chiddu

[@gandikotameera9575]

Do congressmen discuss the PMs of the Nehru- Gandhi dynasty this objectively ?

[@nagarajugadipally2042]

I Salute to Mr rao for his intellectual, good governance & reforms what he delivered to the nation. Hats of u sir, u will be there in history and our current leaders should respect him by adding his biography in curriculum to know by today's young generation.

[@sathya205]

Rather I still categorize India's growth story in the following way: (1) that is post independence and up to PVN and (2) after PVN .

[@atalkumar4593]

All the panelists are there for bashing of PVN .. there Should be other party may be swami who can put real figure

[@ind882]

Sri PV... Is a great leader... No dought.... Whether Cong party recognised or not... But entire world was accepted

[@vishweshwarabs3898]

What a great analyst Jairam Ramesh is! Congress should use his talents. Coming to Rao, I think, he thought Babri was a historic wrong that had to be corrected. If you look at his actions and decisions, you can see that he had a deep sense to right the wrong! Laws are there to to deliver justice and if the laws harm a majority, not applying them is the way of Sri Krishna. He became a statesman when he displayed detachment. That’s mahaprastana! Bhimasena had great strength; Arjuna was shatrapravina; nakula and Sahadeva had special talents. But Yudhishthira prevailed over everyone with wisdom. The young author and the bureaucrat do not have the measure of Rao.

[@samreshbhardwaj8353]

I agree with your every word.

[@thirupathireddy7612]

Shri P V Narshimha Rao, Was Underrated and Unsung hero, He never wanted to take the Credit as Great leader. All the good work was Overpower by Congress Gandhi's Monopoly politics, Now Congress has no visibility for the near future.

[@AbhinavBadagouni]

See Mr. Rao got to know Mrs. Gandhi and her intentions towards India so he wanted to keep her away from politics... Wish he was succeeded fully... Anyway may his soul rest in peace

[@AkhyansuPattnaik]

what's important for us to understand from this session is how complicated the world of politics and governance is. the machinations outweigh the simplicities with which we tend to interpret our politics especially in current times. jairam ramesh rightly pointed out that we should avoid the hagiographic or simply lambasting approach while dealing with a public figure and need to adopt a more objective and rational mean while contemplating about anyone and life in general.

[@deepakk7049]

What a time has come the dogs are barking about an ALL TIME GREAT Mr.PVN..Long live Mr.PVN & RIP..

[@telangana02]

Jairam Ramesh🤛

[@RajeshJonnalagaddaisHere]

the middle one is really a scholar to be panelist or a mouthpiece of Sonia?

[@kschandramouli3922]

The main point to be noted is that when 20 tonnes of gold reserves of India was mortgaged and the Indian economy had totally deteriorated, it was Mr. Rao who brought about revolutionary changes in the Indian economy and today we are eating the fruits of it. In my opinion, he is the most successful PM that our country has witnessed. Further, he was responsible for eradication of terrorism in Punjab. However, those who did not like to see him as PM tried to make corruptioncharges against him. If he were to be PM for one more term our country would have been another heaven. However, Mr. A.B.Vajapayi, who was a great friend of Mr.Rao walked on Rao's path and succeeded. But our people did not vote Atal ji for one more term. That is the tragedy.

[@akm134]

These people in panel (except Vinay Sitapati) have no respect to India's best PM Shri PV NarasimhaRao. He made Bharat standing proud in front of World. He is Bharat's pride. Jai PVNR.....Jai Hind🙏

[@rmrm8590]

It was different then. PV was running a minority Govt. Every six month BJP would try to put no confidence motion. PV was walking on swords edge. He ran his minority Govt 5 years was a great thing. With all these he reformed India and did a great job, can anyone imagine? I don't think he enjoyed being a PM, rather held his breath every moment and ran the Govt and did reforms for the people. With regards to Babri Masjid, I think he thought the issue would go and BJP would not have any agenda to play if it was demolished. After the demolition he dismissed BJP run UP, MP and HP Govts and Congress came to power in these states. He made the UP state Govt responsible. Due to that Kalyan Singh resigned himself. With regards to Delhi riots though no one will like any kind of killings, imagine the emotional stand of people of India when Mrs Gandhi died? What would have been his mindset at that time losing a leader he loved all along? It was a shock everyone in India. That too she was killed by her own body guard. Now it is easy to comment and give ideas. What happened after the assassination? Congress won with huge majority with sympathy votes. That shows how much it emotionally impacted people.

[@ladcameo]

the day Jairam scored some crucial Brownie points from Sonia towards the end

[@santhoshrajan579]

He is not giving the credit to Rao as he had pushed Jairam out of the PMO and so he is biased. A minority govt needed immense will to agree to IMF and implement virtually everything that everyone opposed. So lets give the credit to Rao.

[@sandeepmahale22]

Therefore he is not giving credit to PV Narasimha Rao

[@srikrishnajayachandra8507]

See me.seetapathi,why the 4prime ministers could not they implement the blueprint,why only Sri Narasimha Rao only implement ed reforms?.that is his capability.

[@santhoshrajan579]

The political management of that is the most important aspect as Rao was not in a great majority.

[@MrChaitanya1239]

These "CHAMCHAAS" have no right evaluating the great PVR! Shame on Congress Party

[@anonymous-fo8eb]

Don't interview there jokers or bafoons.Its an insult to the great legend called P.V.He was modern Chanakya and Karma Yogi.

[@santhoshrajan579]

Its simple my dear bureaucrats! your competency is of no value when you fail to convince your boss about what is in the best of the interest of the nation. You fail to convince and act so you fail.

[@yogeshjog6072]

Santhosh Rajan May be that's exactly why he resigned after babari fall.

[@shridharreddykadiveti2475]

PVN was great visionary, who never takes credit and acted silence with reforms and kept the country moving in social, economical and political crisis. But this great son of India was put to humiliation by his own party in his last days and now they are paying for their acts without a leader to lead.

[@srikrishnajayachandra8507]

Don't try to reduce his stature at every juncture and see Congress high command family as Demi god's

[@anildasari5234]

I still dont understand why it's not the one who demolished (BJP) is blamed but the one who has no support from his own party is made a scape goat... and ironically BJP got to power in 96.. so people accepted BJP demolishing it? But every one is blaming PV the greatest reformer of indian economy even today.. Dont forget Gujarat riots .. and BJP is in power in Gujarat till date...This happens only in india

[@rallapalliprasad5959]

I also agree with Sri ranga Naidu why the Congress not supported pvn because. Of non loyalty towards Mrs soniya Gandhi more over he worked for the future of the nation

[@snr5950]

It is very easy for people like Godbole after the event is over....

[@chandrashekarputhran2407]

P. V. Narasimha Rao was really the architect of modern India. Which came to him by default. Maino's family thought he would be a puppet. But utilised the financial acumen of Manmohan and articulated the economy. Neither Maino nor Congress liked the popularity of Rao. Even Congress backed press. His achievements ignored. Rest is history.

[@SunilKumar-pv2il]

Vinay explains very well. We can always have another school of thought for PVs inaction. Had he dismissed Kalyan Singh, BJP could have mobilised thousands of Kar sevaks which could have lead to fatalities. PV would have been called an anti Hindu.

[@madhunair2023]

In the entire Congress and Congress supported regimes the best PM was the shortlived sShastri Ji and the second Best was PVN. These rascals could not stomach his rising to fame, and killed his oldage and also after death... And Charisma is purely in Deeds of a person unless of course you are lookin for a cocktail/bed partner.

[@vivekpmc1992]

Giving credit to Manmohan was a Sonia pick ...so boot liker jairam is so falsely praising him. Even Manmohan consider Rao as his Guru though not openly as he is slave of Gandhi’s

[@chandrasekhar6043]

@JR is paid artest to Congress We should learn from him who is Natasha Rao the entire nation want.

[@prabhasr.2988]

Highly commend Vinay Sitapathi for bringing out the facts about the courageous policy shift prime minister Sri P.V. Narasimha rao made to turn around the Indian economy, a basket case he inherited. Sitapathi has done a great service to Indian history by demolishing the untruths perpetuated by the likes of Godbole, Jairam Ramesh, and Mani Shankar Iyer, the servile courtiers of Sonia Gandhi, an empress installed and worshiped by the Congress party.

[@sria8163]

Enjoyed the discussion.

[@nathansekhar2840]

Mr Vijay Sethapathy is brilliant as well as uridite he leaves no stone unturned to show that Congressmen including Sonia Gandhi were rogues and had no clue how to solve the issue they pushed Narasimha Rao dammed if he did famed if he did not. Even Sriram Ramesh has got scared to talk against Sonia Gandhi despite his intellectualism he is a true politician. Authority without Responsibility. Nathan Sekhar Sydney Australia.

[@srinivask-qb1ve]

Pv only given chance to manmohan, even all congress people opposed it.

[@aadiguru7383]

Pv should be honored with Bharath rathna

[@narasimhansa7765]

And Mr Jairam Ramesh has the goals to say that 320 MPs were in support of a congress whereas cong won 235 seats and supporting parties had 20 odd seats .

[@madhusudhanaraoa4366]

These things apart, which by now whole country knows, ofcourse giving fullest credibility to, PV sir,the speaker here, Jayaram Ramesh and his likes, had only a limited role to play, people of AP would never forget, Congress party, particularly this man, who used to be so, vociferous in dividing AP. He and his fellow congressmen, and their party gone to the dust, almost getting obliterated post, AP division.

[@varon404c5]

He did his duty as a PM on economic front, I don’t think Hindu in him let Babri fall He let a road for stronger opposition,inspite of knowing sanghs agenda and its organisational values, May be he believed India should go through this Hindu supremacy regime too to become a much real secular state,nothing to lose if it fails? Whatever it may be,he grabbed the oppurtunity and emerged as a winner, He spoke a little but did a lot,he pushed congress into a puzzle of religious maze wall,which it is badly fighting now,but nowhere near to crack it! Inspite of shortcomings there is no doubt congress built the modern India,albeit being swept away in the religious model of sangh in every election! It’s upto the people of India to choose their path,that is what P.V might have predicted or wished! Only time will answer! Any how P.V was one hell of a politician P.S our current PM is lucky as he is just a rubber stamp of sangh and cronies,as long as he satisfies his masters he is in the chair

[@jayanthkumar7964]

I wish Mr Godbole held up the mic better.

[@chamarthinagakumar3204]

Suggesting action before any act to come in preview of 355 is unbelievable and not genuine for him to say now without any record .

[@mididhoddimuralidharrao1907]

Very great person.

[@ravisankarmovva6869]

Why is destruction of Babri mosque discussed as such a big tragedy. If a temple was destroyed in its place it wouldn't been such a big deal for these people.

[@mohan88hg]

PV Narashima Rao is undoubtedly the best best Prime Minister of India. These paid stooges are brainless people. They forget NPT, CTBT and so many other reforms.

[@prabhupitchai3907]

Rao's one of the blunder was his friendship with '"Chandraswami" . It was Chandraswami who ordered LTTE to kill RAJIV GANDHI. And P.M. Rao was protecting him from being arrested. Because of his interference C.B.I. was unable to arrest him. There are also other flaws like Babri Masjid, Bombay Blasts, Harshad Mehta Scam where he failed to act immediately. Beside these flaws I stll admire him for he was the first P.M from South India and his economic reforms helped india in many ways as a developed County.

[@srikrishnajayachandra8507]

We should be balanced when expressing our opinions.

[@nabhinayyam]

Indian constitution was copied mostly from British constitution including the spellings. I don’t know what his point is, at least he was smart enough to take help from the best. PV was a gem, it still baffles me what beef Gandhi family has with him.

[@VishwaVihaan]

at 57.19 Mr.jai ram ramesh ji u don't know foreign policy u know but he made out standing policy to develop nation but u don't like tell about what he had did why u r escape from this question

[@SubashCV]

Such a brilliant discussion Must watch

[@rajshekhar7142]

Congress didn't give credit 2 pvnr

[@saikovvali]

JR must be a fool to say that PVN was a failure as union minister.

[@chamarthinagakumar3204]

The person between sitapati and jaram is not speaking true and not even genuine. He wants to please some people for his future only. Unfortunate at his age now.

[@rajkacham5245]

He was great as Chief Minister also. Jairam Ramesh got it wrong

[@sivr3352]

Jairam says PVNR was a monumental failure before PM and he follows RG who didnt have any electoral victory. Talk about hypocrisy

[@gonuguntlarajesh3503]

Demolition of Babri maszid is not worth the ryots that may take place if PV N Rao would have stopped demolition. He was a more humanitarian and less politician Jairam. Jairam and Godbole claims that it is PV, what happened to these guys, why did these people came to people and talked about facts when they know everything.

[@anonymous-fo8eb]

All these backstabbers gathered here.When his dead body was not allowed inside Delhi Congress bhavan none were present there to raise objections.

[@sanjeevuluannapuram5619]

The best prime minister of India

[@kutalavenkataramana8106]

Jairam Ramesh is a puppet and basically jealous of achievements of PVN who is from Cong a non Gandhi family member

[@adityaindroju5139]

Jairam Ramesh tried his best discredit THE MAN. He knew exactly what he was doing. He was more intelligent than they all thought. He silenced the allies and opposition when they were going against them with Hawala case. Congress hated him as he was going against the ITALIAN mafia style.

[@infonatindia7060]

So they're not going to accept PVR as a leader who did something good. Same happened to MNS during UPAs. How good the leadership can be, they'll never give credit to them except that they're from 'The Family' . Says the whole story with reasons of where the congress is today.

[@subramanianramachandran1467]

VP Singh survival on Mondol Commission came from M K of DMK , for they successfully surmounted many political hurdles by fomenting and inciting OBC BCetc., that ensured their survival amidst big corruption cases

[@naveenkhariwal4510]

Just credit the wily old man late p v NARSIMHA Rao for bringing the economic reforms during the turbulent yrs of 1991 to 1996 which put india back on pedestral . The blue prints of reforms of Sri Subramanian swamy was available with 4 prime ministers before him & they all failed to implement these reforms. Celebrate the life of first non Gandhi prime minister of Indian national congress & atleast now the party should credit & accept his achievements in public .

[@GreatMan_from_East]

39:10

[@lakshmankaranam]

Pranab Mukherjee is best choice than Manmohan as pm

[@venkateshdasari5732]

Pv follows government laws

[@srikrishnajayachandra8507]

See if your house boundary wall was demolished without your knowledge,if you are somewhere and information came some late,can you stop it.

[@satyam_krishna]

I feel sad that they are more interested in talking about negatives of p.v than atleast appreciate him now for his reforms

[@ind882]

JRR... Is a big cheater in view of AP

[@venkateshdasari5732]

Jiram u don't known first you learn .....government lawsss

[@anthadupularaghu8076]

There is an allegation on PV because of his tacit understanding with BJP, it came to power. If that is the case, then definitely he is a cheater as he is grown with the bread & butter of INC.

[@srinivassubramanyam4025]

was there another option

[@minakshisahu4844]

Jairam Ramesh forced by congress not to praise PVN Rao. Strange argument. The PM is the leader. If anything goes wrong in cabinet PM is responsible where as if good work done by cabinet credit goes to cabinet minister not PM. Fathu argument by Ramesh.

[@venkateshdasari5732]

Poraaa thayeee Jayaram ga nev hindu kada raaaa

[@kishorekorutla2045]

half way thru, i just feel mr.jayaram is awe at pv. but wants to project otherwisw

[@satishreddy9919]

In this session, Vinay gave light slap on So called burocrat Godbole but he needs tight slap on his face

[@lakshmankaranam]

Due to jairam dugvijay Congress liss strong commend in South simply disappeared These fellows won't even get there family members votes but these fellows our ministers

[@vijayrajeswarraoparsa4217]

Dear NDTV your beloved Congress Party did not even accord decent cremation and memorial for P V Narasimha rao - Congress high command has been hated by Congress High Command till date

[@sanjaysriram7294]

vikram sampath in the audience?

[@sri5sri]

Jai Ram Ramesh is an intelligent manipulator, sometimes acting against the interests of India, to serve his political ambitions. Shameful to see him. May the great PM, Narasimha Rao rest in peace.

[@Murli7]

Mr. Jairam seems, not been enjoyed what he expected in Rao's government . Lol...😂

[@kolliramu546]

Arnab would have ripped off all three congress men.

[@jasong904]

wow, looks like a session sponsored by Jairam to spew venom against the greatest PM India ever produced