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New Delhi: The UPA Government completes three years in office on Tuesday and the performance of the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Government comes under scrutiny.

But there is a feeling in the political circles that he has not been able to wield the authority associated with the Prime Minister's office.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may have managed to get into the Rajya Sabha again but he is going through a three-year itch.

He is surrounded on all sides by an increasingly bitter Left, an Opposition baying for his blood and now even critics within his own Cabinet.

Minister for Sports and Panchayti Raj Mani Shankar Iyer says, “I fear that a Government which is attempting to have an economic policy for the aam aadmi may not get the aam aadmi's endorsement.”

This is not the first time Manmohan has been criticised for forgetting the aam aadmi. His weakness was exposed when in his latest small Cabinet reshuffle after the exit of Dayanidhi Maran, he had to bring in V Radhika Selvi.

Selvi is the wife of a don killed in police encounter. The Prime Minister didn't utter a word of protest.

BJP spokesperson Prakash javdekar says, “Its the prime Ministers' prerogative to appoint and dismiss ministers. Here the DMK does everything from Chennai, which is clear the power centre is somewhere else.”

The Left knows that the UPA government is dependent on their block for its survival. So they are extracting their price.

CPI-M leader Sitaram Yetchury says, “We are not happy with privatisation of the pension funds and since we are not happy we cannot support that bill and because of which the discussion various rounds of discussions have taken place.”

In the history of independent India Manmohan Singh is perhaps the first Prime Minister not to face the electorate during his tenure, obviously questions are raised from the members of his own Government over his political authority but the larger question which comes to everybody’s mind is that what kind of a legacy does he leave behind as a Prime Minister.