"Money doesn't grow on trees": Open Response to Indian PM Manmohan Singh India needs reforms in the national interest and "hard decisions" will be pursued with people's support, despite political opposition. This was the message a resolute Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sent out on Friday, barely hours after the Trinamool Congress withdrew from his 40-month-old government reducing it to a minority. "No government wants to impose burdens on the common man," Manmohan Singh said, seeking to reach out directly to the people and explaining to them the rationale behind "some important economic policy decisions" taken in recent days, harsh as they may seem. "The time has come for hard decisions. For this I need your trust, your understanding and your cooperation," he pleaded in a rare televised address to the nation at prime time on public broadcaster Doordarshan. The address came shortly after all six Trinamool Congress ministers — the second largest party in the UPA — resigned from the government and withdrew the support of its 19 Lok Sabha members to the ruling coalition, three days after it said it was quitting the alliance over its latest round of reforms which it said were "anti-poor". Railway Minister Mukul Roy and five ministers of state called on the prime minister and handed over their resignations. The meeting barely lasted five minutes. They later went and submitted a letter to President Pranab Mukherjee withdrawing support to the UPA. These developments have a ...