If Kalam thinks he is popular and fit for public life, leave alone the office of the President, why doesn't he make this explicit and contests for MP from Chennai.
People would fall over each other to vote for him. He can then contest for PMship in parliament.
But I know he wouldn't do that as he knows he can't win. He would contest only if he is sure to win and no other party puts candidate aganinst him.
Obviously, He has excuse for everything.
Some would say that an honest man can't win an election. I agree that there are people like Advani, Vajpayee, Sushma Swaraj etc. who win election solely based on goondagiri and money/muscle power. But on the other hand, there are people like P. Chidambara, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Late Sunil Dutt etc. who win election just because of their abilities and clean image. So this would be just another excuse form Kalam and his fans.
Being an MP, people's representative, is the biggest thing in democracy. PM, Presidents are official posts but an MP is people's man. Nobody should be ashamed of representing people. So many ex-primeministers are just MPs today. No ex-president was an MP because presidents are never people's man.
An so is Kalam. People are not going to vote for him.
Being a big opportunist, he accepted the president's post when it was being offerd to him. Now when the time came for election, he backed out. Big coward. Big opportunist.
If he cared for public, He should have become and MP. Not President.
