It will be graceful in accordance with the number crunching of votes that Mrs. patil be permitted to be selected unanimously. The precious votes likely to be won by the loosing nominees will be wasted as negative votes while back tracking step by such nominees would strenghthen all the votes and ensure the President to be not a stamp and paper President. A consensus will only make her DURGA to destroy evil and prevent her to be a partisan empress of a ruling coalition. Kuldeep Chandra