The debate on this message board and across India has clearly shown that President Kalam resides in the heart of every Indian and it does not matter, who actually becomes the president of India. Congress has lost morally. They have belittled the post of president. Pratibha Patil may become the President of India but will never get any respect or regard from anyone. Congresss is anyway going to loose the next general elections. This kind of arrangement will not last forever...till then enjoy great Puppet Show in Delhi orchestrated by Sonia Gandhi.
RE:People's President
by pointyhaired on Jun 22, 2007 12:00 AM Permalink
Very aptly put.
Congress has lost its face with this whole sham. This was probably the last opportunity Manmohan Singh had (after his no show on the issues of Ramadoss vs AIIMS, Arjun Singh vs. IIMs, Moral policing of the media etc) to show that he did indeed respected meritocracy.
But now, it surely looks like that Manmohan Singh the distinguished economist has become a true blue politician.
RE:People's President
by subash sharma on Jun 21, 2007 11:54 PM Permalink
true yaar, Congress is playing dirty politics. why congress only every party is behaving in same way. 3rd front nominated kalam for the reason that they will get the sympathy of Kalam's supporters (almost every indian)..people look at President and PM as their icon. if u are puuting anyone on that post its cheating with 110 crore people. If congress has some resent against Kalam, they could have gone for some other good candidate (like Narayanmurthy or any one has strong vision and whom every indian adore and respect).But not any one unknown like pratibha patil.
RE:People's President
by George A on Jun 22, 2007 02:30 AM Permalink
A few like you want Kalam...but he is he 1 bit qualified for any political post. It is a BIG NO..and fell really sorry that the media and quite a few people think so. It is a pity that people want Kalam to be President and deny a lady who has spent more than 30 years working with the people and is indeed a true representative of the people. Typical of the people in the city who do not represnt majority of India. Prathiba or anyone like her is the true represntative of India. She may get elected through bad politics, but any day she is a more deserving candidate than any we had so far. A scientist or economist is not what we need for President or PM. We need someone who really represnets the people
RE:People's President
by sonali shukla on Jun 22, 2007 12:41 PM Permalink
People like you can talk like this only. You are Christian and A blind follower of Sonia, we can not accept more than that from you. If you are Indian, please rise from that dirty politics and put your voice for Mr. Kalam
