Chennai, May 20: Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy today said all patriotic and secular forces should rally behind Prime Minister-designate Manmohan Singh. Welcoming the Congress leader's appointment and describing him as a "erudite scholar of economics", he said Singh is "an honest politician with a quiet unstated determination to do the right thing".

The United Progressive Alliance partners have a special responsibility not to "plug their pet and outdated economic ideas and seek to shackle Singh's efforts to further reform the economic system within the framework of human dignity," Swamy said in a statement.
Bureau Report