Articles

22 Mar

2010

The best foot forward

SOMETIME in May, when UPA II completes a year in office, Manmohan Singh will do something he has done only once in his five and a half years as prime minister. I am reliably told that he will address what is only his second “formal” press conference in the capital. The first happened in May 2005 when the UPA completed a year in office and Manmohan released the first “Report to the People”, which was a detailed compendium of the programmes initiated in the government’s first year.