In a remarkable judgment, the Supreme Court upheld the CBI’s clean chit to Dr Manmohan Singh in the alleged “coal block allocation scam”. Dr Singh has been vindicated on every count. It is not a coincidence that the Prime Minister was also among the most vocal proponents of the attack on Dr Singh. Ultimately, the attack on Dr Singh was motivated by a desperate desire to shift the public conversation and narrative away from his outstanding governance record. History will indeed remember him kindly as a quiet, gentle but a most consequential prime minister.