new delhi till 630 pm 19 safdarjung road made its presence felt only by the media teams camping outside unlike 10 janpath there were no spilling crowds the serenity within remained undisturbed the occasional movement alerting mediapersons hungry for newsbut it was all destined to change within minutes after sonia gandhi announced manmohan singh as the prime ministerdesignate a contingent of police force moved into his residence so did singhs supporters and a group of proud sikhs screaming hoarse support for a man who has remained an intensely private personthe morning brought a series of visitors to the residence of manmohan singh the man who was tipped to be prime minister the politicos rolled in vaiko s ramadoss pranab mukherjee natwar singh anand sharma bimal jalanby the afternoon there was again silence manmohan singhs car the homely ambassador swept into the sprawling house about 345 pm and was out again at 410 pm darkened windows firmly rolled upa little earlier his young bespectacled grandson raghav neared the boundary with his own worldview i used to interact a lot with him his grandfather but nowadays he is very busy being finance minister is okay but being pm is a huge responsibility the lad who seemed less than enthusiastic then politely excused himself i have some other business to attend to so ill take your leaveand his dog and he walked back init was back to the shade of the neem trees outside the gate now and then a congratulatory bouquet would come in but one bouquet along with boxes of sweets came on the arm of an elderly gentleman who identified himself as an old schoolmate of manmohan singh from pakistanhe was in class viii singh his junior by three years at the s s mota singh school in chakwal singhs family then moved to peshawar said p s sethi but the two kept in touchand there he was a bachpan ka dost on a hot and dusty wednesday afternoon distributing rasgullas to securitymen media persons and for that matter anybody within range on the road bachpan ke din bhi kya din the