Manmohan Singh has been criticised time and again for playing second fiddle to Sonia Gandhi, keeping the prime minister's seat warm for Rahul Gandhi and more. We do not know if it was this, or his loyalty to the Congress first family that resulted in one of Congress front-runners for the Karnataka chief minister's post, Siddaramaiah, telling the media in his first post-results comments, "I wish to thank Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Manmohan Gandhi."


