New Delhi, Dec 20 (Inditop.com) For a person who has not taken a personal holiday in eons, Manmohan Singh will certainly go down in the annals of history as one of India’s most travelled prime ministers. A workaholic, he has set himself a scorching pace, jet setting around the world in his two tenures.
In his first stint after taking over in 2004, he made 35 trips abroad attending multilateral and bilateral summits. And in his second tenure since May, he has already gone abroad eight times in a space of seven months – a clear indicator of how things will pan out during the rest of his term.
In fact in the last month alone, he travelled to the US, Trinidad and Tobago, Russia and capped it with his trip to Copenhagen for the climate summit. Unlike other prime ministers who like to soak in the sights and sounds of foreign destinations and probably add a day or two to their official trips, Singh is disciplined and packs a very tight schedule.
And to think – as an insider in his entourage put it – “he is a reluctant traveller!”
rounak