India, Aug. 12 -- History will remember Manmohan Singh as a "quiet but a most consequential prime minister", Congress leader Sonia Gandhi said in a signed article on Tuesday, adding that his record of integrity stands in stark contrast with the Modi government's. She also said that Singh's prophetic prediction of January 2014 is becoming increasingly self-evident with every passing day, in an apparent reference to his then statement that it would be "disastrous for the country" to have Narendra Modi as the prime minister. The Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson's remarks in the article published in The Indian Express come days after the Supreme Court gave former prime minister Singh a clean chit in the coal block allocation case. Also Read - Meaningless to discuss crime under Samrat Choudhary's chief ministership: Prashant Kishor "History will indeed remember him kindly as a quiet, gentle but a most consequential prime minister," she said. In a swipe at Modi, Gandhi said since he is these days "forgiving" India's students for attacking him, perhaps he can take this opportunity to forgive himself for his undignified slander against Singh. She said the judgement brings to a conclusion one of the most tragic arcs of our public discourse -- "the witch-hunt against Singh, a man of the most remarkable probity and integrity". "The lobby against him was coordinated and well-organised, with actors stretching from the bureaucracy to the media, the judiciary, civil society, and most certainly to the RSS and BJP. "Today, their bogus crusade has come to its inevitable conclusion of nothingness. Singh has been vindicated on every count," Gandhi wrote.
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