US publishing giant, The Washington Post has said that it will also publish a clarification from Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after it carried a report that criticized the PM and his UPA government.

The newspaper has reportedly not agreed to apologize for the report titled `India's silent Prime Minister becomes a tragic figure'. The report said that the Dr. Singh helped put India on the path of modernity, prosperity and power but is facing the danger of being remembered as a failure.

Media reports claim that the news paper will publish a clarification from the Prime Minister but its stands by its original story and does not intend to apologies for it. The report had said that Dr. Sing's image of honorable, humble and intellectual technocrat is fading and a new one of dithering, ineffectual bureaucrat presiding over a deeply corrupt government is appearing o be formed.

"The story of Singh's dramatic fall from grace in his second term in office and the slow but steady tarnishing of his reputation has played out in parallel with his country's decline on his watch. As India's economy has slowed and as its reputation for rampant corruption has reasserted itself, the idea that the country was on an inexorable road to becoming a global power has increasingly come into question," the report had said.