Totally agree with you! The Congress has dragged a respectable post into muck. Earlier the Presidential candidates were eminent and respectable people like the current President. They were beyond controversies, and respected by all the political parties.
Look at the change now. Pratibha Patil is a non-entity as far as eminence and stature goes. She has nothing positive to her credit. On the contrary she has a chequered profile, and should not have been propped up for the post. Sonia Gandhi leads her around by the arm like some favoured subordinate (which she is). The President's post is now the Congress party's gift for it's party workers.
