The previous 2 presidents (including the outgoing) were chosen not for their greatness but because of their social/ religious background. Why shouldn't the theme be gender this time. It is at least better than caste / religious polictics. True, the previous incumbents had a clean public image, but that is more because none of them had a political career. Who in politics today can be vouched for being 'clean' - even the communists will not pass muster. Does this mean that there should be no President, if there are no eligible 'political' candidates. In that case, we do not see even a single 'outsider' courageous individual who ran for the presidential election as an 'independent'. It can only be deduced that most Indians did support the candidate, else surely at least one person from a billion people nation would have stood up against the so-called 'travesty of justice'.
