dear communist sahadevan how come comrades collegues of yours rape poor helpless women at nandigram and singur ( maybe thats what you and CPM CPI call womens empowerment). your party grabs land from the poor and helpless peasants and hands it over to the tatas and salems ( thats is poverty elimination as per CPM ) . shame on you and the CPM/CPI -- agents of the bourgeois. look at the choice of your party leaders karat and bardhan pratibha qualifcations includeg shielding her brother in murder case, brother siphoning of kargill war victim funds, she dishing out loans to her relatives from her bank founded on public money , pratibha using MP funds for the benifit of her own edcuational orgainstaions and trust, her husband abetting the sucide of a employee by withholding his salary inspite of a court order for the paymnet of the employeess salary dues. today communist and congress politcians infact has endorsed , dignified and rewarded ills like corruption, murder , expolitaion and nepotism by voting for pratibha enmasse. i am no shekwat supporter but indian definately deserved a better dignified non controversial president. The vote for pratibha can be seen as how low the values of the politicans whom india voted to power has fallen too.