Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been described as &quot;a dithering, ineffectual bureaucrat presiding over a deeply corrupt government&quot; by a leading US daily. <img alt="Manmohan Singh" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2012/aug/manmohan-singh_1.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 355px; " /> Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (Photo - AFP) In an article &quot;India&#39;s &#39;silent&#39; prime minister becomes a tragic figure&quot;, the daily said Manmohan Singh helped set India on the path to modernity, prosperity and power, but critics say the shy, soft-spoken 79-year-old is in &quot;danger of going down in history as a failure&quot;. The architect of India&#39;s economic reforms, Singh was a major force behind his country&#39;s rapprochement with the United States and is a respected figure on the world stage. &quot;But the image of the scrupulously honorable, humble and intellectual technocrat has slowly given way to a completely different one: a dithering, ineffectual bureaucrat presiding over a deeply corrupt government,&quot; it said. The daily said that for the past two weeks everyday, the Indian parliament has been adjourned as the opposition demands Singh&#39;s resignation over allegations of waste and corruption in the allocation of coal-mining concessions. &quot;The story of Singh&#39;s dramatic fall from grace in his second term in office and the slow but steady tarnishing of his reputation has played out in parallel with his country&#39;s decline on his watch. &quot;As India&#39;s economy has slowed and as its reputation for rampant corruption has reasserted itself, the idea that the country was on an inexorable road to becoming a global power has increasingly come into question,&quot; said the daily.u00a0

A leading daily in the United States has criticised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by calling him an ineffectual bureaucrat.

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