If prime minister has weakened due to the shelving of disinvestment announcement of NLF and lack of support from Sonia Gandhi, it is mearly due to his and Mr. Chidambarm's intentional planning to sideline the UPA-Left common minimum programme. The CMP clealy states that, the coalation will not disinvest profit making PSU's. Its very clear that Mr. Chidambaram neither has any interest in the selling off of loss making ones nor re-structuring it. But he is interested in weakning the backbone of national economy by selling good profit making and stratagically important industrial establishments like BHEL, NFL, Nalco or national oil companies
Further, it would be interesting to have a study about the previously disinvested PSU's (both, profit making and loss making)- what benefit it made to the employees, huge land and other properties, etc.
