well, now that our mainstream politics are soo corrupt and soo painful to sustain for people with some intellectual capacity - why not atleast have the positions like governor, prez adorned by some educated, sensible people. If not anything, we would atleast have a good look out presenting such people as our nations's representatives on the international forums and also may be inspirational to some in india !!! We dont lose anything anyways with somebody with no political background occupying such posts. Well the point is - having kalam as prez is good - now that hez done lets have somebody on similar lines ... narayana murthy, rahul bajaj, TN Seshan etc !! I was thinking had Manmohan singh not become the PM, he would have been a perfect for a prez.
And kalam is too old and tired to have science experiments and so he accepted the prez post. Anyways ppl like him after retirement are best served as role models for the society. Think about the millions of inspired kids who learnt about him during his tenure !!! He couldn't have served the country in a better way !!
RE:T.N.SHESAN
by subhash baburao patil on May 17, 2007 07:01 AM Permalink
it is very poor and regrettable statement.do calculate the money spent in treatment of your grand mother or grand father. also ,the comment is not appropriate when he has declined the post
RE:RE:T.N.SHESAN
by psycho on May 17, 2007 09:30 AM Permalink
you r right after all he was the former PM we should respect him for that. and ABV is a kind of politician who deserves respect.
Let us play politics once again. Last time around Mr.P C Alexander's candidature was not acceptable to the congress as the coterie felt that the nation would not accept two Christians, oe as President another as Prime Minister before the drama filled Prime ministership sacrifice. Now we have a Prime Minister by Proxy. let us have have Pranab Mukherjee with his Christian credentials as the next Candidate and the whole nation postrate in front of Rahul and Priyanka for acceptance of his nomination. Last time Muslim as President, Mr. K R Narayanan was SC, A minority is the PM, An OBC / Brahmin / ST as the next President? Let us ask Italian Madam. We are nation of jokers without intelligence except wagging our tail and being a boot licker's. Can't we find another President who is an Indian first?
Let it be an honarary post for a pricipled person who has done something for the country. Let the person not try to act smarter than the party/elected members that put him in that post. I am not saying you should compromise on your priciple. Any person who has the right attitude should be able to develop the country from whatever position he is in. You don't need to be a president to do that.
just want to know what Mr. Kalam could do as a president , True he is a genious, he provides a direction to the youths but as a president why waste his mental power as everyone knows that how much power the president of india holds He can send back any law cleared by parliyament only once but not twice also the NDA and Lots of Indians are not happy with Mr. Kalam's as the decision of hanging AFjal is still hanging in air want to know your positive and negative comment over the issue
RE:next prez
by viswanath on May 17, 2007 04:22 AM Permalink
its not true that prez needs to clear when the bill is sent the second time, He can just keep it with him, neither approving nor rejecting,
RE:next prez
by ron josh on May 17, 2007 05:20 AM Permalink
kalam has missed many points, he is the president, he need not agree with the PM many wrong decisons like dissolving assemblies and not doin so, capital punishment of a traitor, moreover even the courts have turned down his authority in the reservation case.
No political party will ever back Dr Kalam for a second term. They know he's a man of principles and a visionary. Nobody wants a developed India u see, coz if that happens they can never get elected
RE:kalam rulz!!
by Onlooker on May 17, 2007 05:35 AM Permalink
Dr Kalam is ok with his principles. But I don't think he could have been a man of priciple and reached a highest position in a govt organization like ISRO.
we know vote for our president unfornately. Its political parties decide who should be the president. They can even propose me if I can please the parties.
What is the use of ABV as president - no powers for the president under India's constitution. The whole system is now corrupt so what can one man do?
Ideally, Subash Bose or Sardar Patel should have been the "dictator" of India after independence for at least 20 years. That would have given them time to clean out the weeds (commies, congressies, anti-Hindu, and anti-nationals).
I like the American policy - anyone associated with commies are put in jail and barred from politics. We should sentence the old hacks Joyti Basu, VP Singh, the Karats, etc to 20 years RI.
RE:What is the use?
by p s on May 17, 2007 04:19 AM Permalink
Karan, even your dad is not worth becoming a peon, if u cant appreciate anybody keep your mouth shut.....
RE:What is the use?
by kawaljeet sandhu on May 17, 2007 04:57 AM Permalink
Karan ABV was the Best PM India ever had. Much better than the all from Nehru dynasti. If you cannot appriciate dont condemn.
RE:What is the use?
by psycho on May 17, 2007 09:34 AM Permalink
he is the one who gave a wake up call to the congress there can be a non-congress govt at the centre and that too which can run its full term. now ,congress is worried , if they don't perform,BJP might win next election.
