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Coal Scam Ghost Haunts Manmohan Singh

The former prime minister, Manmohan Singh, got the dubious honour of being only the second ever Prime Minister to stand trial in a corruption case, when the special CBI court on Wednesday summoned him as an accused in connection with an illegal allocation of a coal block in Orissa.

The coal scam which in many ways, coupled with 2G scam, led to the decimation of the Congress Party and the UPA in…