It seems unfair that the whole world should be piling on India’s first woman president to be, but here’s a simple question: Will Pratibha Patil as President prove to be an embarrassment to the country? Will the murder charges against her relatives and the defaultment charges against her bank cast a cloud over Rashtrapati Bhavan? Will her own gaffes on the purdah, on sterilisation, and her communicating with a dead guru steal the thunder from her? Will she forget the mudslinging and the shadow boxing? Will the Left have second thoughts on backing her?
Simply put, even conceding it was high time a woman was President, has the right woman been nominated?
Has the right woman been nominated?
Oooops tough question…..I pass (or fail?)
Feel sorry for Mrs. Najma Heptulla:
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Mrs. Najma Heptulla was a loyal Congress spokeperson & worker, destined to be nominated for President of India (as always for loyal Congress worker).
But in 2004, she did the unthinkable – she jumped. To BJP. Probably that cost the post of President of India.
In my opinion, Mrs. Najma Heptulla was a better candidate than Prathiba Patil.
The left is not right if it keeps its mouth tight after the revelation of not that glorious past of the president nominee it supports for the top most post of the country. No wonder in near future a right thinking left leader considers it aptly, a second historic blunder
Pratibha Patil has really proved true to her name “Pratibha” which means “talent”. That way she undoubtedly has unfathomable talent for foul play and fraud. With every news paper and media blurting this out tirelessly day in and day out she has become the talk orf the nation. But it is like everybody talking about the bad weather and nobody seeming to do anything about it! Catapulting such a person to the highest office of the land much against the will of the people is the greatest tragedy of the largest democray in the world. Of course this can happen only in India!!!!
Talking abt women candidates, here’s my list:
1. Romila Thapar – Eminent Historian. May not be acceptable to Hindutva folks though.
2. Mahashewata Devi – Eminent Writer and Tribal activist. Except for age, I can’t find anything wrong with her.
3. Dr. V. Shanta – Magsaysay Award winning Cancer specialist. We have had too many presidents from South India though.
4. Lata Mangeshkar – Bharat Ratna. She has been a reluctant parliamentarian, but she can sell Bollywood to the world.
5. Mrinal Pandey – Editor of Hindustan. Isn’t it time to have a journalist as President?
It is awaste of time debating over this non-issue. It does not matter who is the president ? All you need is a dead brain and a ready signature. If APJK can sign from Russia why not PP ? We had a SDSharma who at the drop of hat used to come to Titupati and shave his head and do urulu seve and the way back see Satya Saibaba – all at tax payers expense or a Giani Singhji who never desrved even a watchman’ s post a Rashtrapati Bhavan ….. the list is long . Let us instead debate whether we need a President at all ? We can give the additional charge of signing to the CJI ? we can save money and we will have people who know what is right and will make Art.143 redundant.
Zail Singh,Fakkruddin ali ahmed— it is all right if Pratibha succeds them– Can we expect anything better from Antonio Maino–
In fact there have been many not so illustrious persons occupying the post of the President in the past and unfortunately the list is quite long as we can see from the comments. But what is frightning now is even before the new president is anointed the skeletons are tumbling out of the cupboard and the charges cannot be taken lightly because they include murder and fraud though she might not be directly linked.
If she has the right conscience then she herself should step down. But can that ever happen in our country. Yes. See even Telgi confessed all because his wife who is also terminally ill made him confess. What better examply one needs. You just have a day to go madam Pratibha just step back.
Talk about LEFT. They are just jokers. they just rise hue and cry in the bigining, but go wih congress later. They share power in the center which they never could dream about. Let congress rule we will just object all the time, this is left – spine less.
Left are not jokers. They have a strategy. Communism beleives in undermining the democratic set up by hook or by crook. They have bargained for VP. With parlament head and this post they would like to further their efforts if possible.
Why is that parliament head remarks frequently about Judiciary or for that matter why WB is against Election commissions honest efforts?
Smt. Patil’s nomination is a 100 per cent scam pulled on the Indian people.
Check out the documented facts at this informative site. Smt. Patil is crooked through and through:
http://www.knowpratibhapatil.com/
Also see Karan Thapar’s excellent interview with Arun Shourie.
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/video/videoPlayer.swf?ad=http://video.tv18online.com/cnbctv18/news_videos/10PAISAVCD.flv&adURL=http://www.10paisa.com&vid=http://video.tv18online.com/cnbctv18/news_videos/2007Jul/indiantonight1_arunshourie_pratibhapatil_2july.flv
Sonia Gandhi and the Congress party are so corrupt, it is actually shocking.