4. Commitment to secularism was set out to be the foremost condition for the candidate and only on this ground Shivaraj Patil and Karan Singh were rejected by the Leftists. How secular Madame Pratibha is. First, she does not have much love for her Muslim brothers as evident from her public utterances on `Muslim conquests%u2019, `attributing lack of progress among Muslims to their mad love for their religion%u2019 and `failure of Muslims elders to wean away Muslim youths from the path of militancy. Her religious fervor, on the other hand, very often makes non-Hindus `untouchables%u2019 at any function in her family. People of Jalgaon narrate instances when Madame Pratibha had baths after visiting local slums only to ward of the `unsacred dirt%u2019 collected by touching `Achut%u2019 people and washed her house after a Congress man from lower caste called on her.
5. Integrity is another casualty during the selection of Madame Pratibha. Here is an individual who doled out favours to her kin and sycophants ignoring all established norms. Her name is synonym with `abuse of power%u2019 for self interest. Several Crores of public money swindled by her and her family members. This was the money collected from one and all in the from of various taxes by Government of Maharashtra and sanctioned to the Cooperative Bank and the Sugar Mill run by her and her family members. Reason why this swindling is viewed by Congress and its leader as a virtue is the liberal donation Madam Prati
