Dr Manmohan Singh remains the only member of a minority to be Prime Minister of India. At the time of his Prime Ministership (2004-2014), his being a Sikh could be seen as him being almost a Hindu. Dr Singh, who was P.V. It was perhaps inevitable that Dr Singh would reject Mr Modi’s claims that Congress intended to give India over to the Muslims. However, though Dr Singh was a Sikh whose party was headed by a naturalized Italian, his Cabinet, his parliamentary majority, was overwhelmingly Hindu, and he could hardly do anything to alienate them.
