The misunderstood leader

During one of those heated GD sessions we persued during our CAT coaching, at some point the topic drifted to Rajeev Gandhi. Surprisingly after the session our moderator started talking very emtionally about him. He highlighted the inability on his part to make decisions and held him responsible for 'Ayodhya'. Was it all true. Although Rajeev Gandhi is heavily criticized for his mismangement, I think we are forgetting his achievements. This reluctant politician who was responsible for the breaking up of many sections from congress was also the one resposible for the modernisation of our communication and transportation infrastructure. His techno-savy nature paved way for the entry of mobile phones to India which is an indespensible entity now. The youngest PM of India, the PM who ruled with maximum majority in Lok Sabha, also the PM who took largest world bank loans. We cant really blame him for that, our economy was in such a state. We were adamant about not allowing any FDIs or FIIs and our crude oil and defense import bills(thanks to our neighbour Pakistan) were always well above our meagre exports. So to persue modernisation, he had to go for loans. But its a golden achievement for him that India recorded a record economic growth of 10.5% in the last year of his rule. Needless to say he was efficient and far-sighted, but still couldnt manage India well. Simple answer, you cant expect a piolet to learn the intricacies & fallacies of Indian politics in a day and head a bunch of corrupt, crooked and cunning politicians with the help of an army of lazy, uninterested beaurocrats. Fianlly one of them or many of them under the one big one pulled him down & made a new party whose fragments are creating all sorts of problems in Indian politics now with their caste & religous vote banks.