Comments on: Pratibha Patil Shekhawat: UPA Candidate For President

By: preity chadha

preity chadha — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:14:47 +0000

wonderful
some beautiful polititions are trying 2 make our beautiful country handycapt.

By: rama kant singh

rama kant singh — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 11:07:38 +0000

its doesn’t matter that candidate should be male or female.it must be consider that candidate should be able for the post.
i think pratibha patil doesn’t has desired ability to hold that post. she might be represent sonia gandhi in rashtrapati bhawan.
some leader soughting that this move will empower indian women (great joke).
there will no such changes in scinario of indian women after faulty change in rashtrapati bhawan.there will only change that Mrs. sonia gandhi will recognize as “super president of Inian Republic as well as super prime minister”.

By: Parimal

Parimal — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:43:55 +0000

“Now the onus is on her to come out of the shadows and stamp her mark on Indian polity”

Mohib,
She did come out of shadows yesterday by claiming to hear spirit at mount abu.

By: Mohib

Mohib — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 09:55:55 +0000

I understand and agree to an extent the sense of disillusionment felt by fellow Indians here on the nomination of Pratibha Patil as a Presidential candidate for UPA. Now the onus is on her to come out of the shadows and stamp her mark on Indian polity. It is for her to decide how she would want to be remembered: Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed or APJ Abdul Kalam. Kumar Ketkar in a wonderful piece in IE captures the personality of Pratibha Patil quite well:

Pratibha Patil’s career and character have been such that she has no enemies, no rivals, no competitors, a good way to be away from the media glare. No wonder, most mediapersons were clueless about her profile when her name was announced on Thursday.[Indian Express]

By: triple

triple — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:14:54 +0000

What a shame. This is again dangerous times for India’s democracy. A person we know practically nothing about is ruling the country de facto by placing puppets everywhere. makes me sick. what makes me sick is that we must be deserving it.

By: mahi

mahi — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:26:32 +0000

Depressing times. What a joke. Sonia amma has acquired skills that her mother in law could boast of. Puppets in place, we can wait for the Chosen One – Rahul – to ascend to the throne soon. (can’t stop my drool).

By: kashif

kashif — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:46:56 +0000

A country of ambitions of becoming super-power has weak PM and now it will have weak President as well.

PM who can not win a Lok Sabha election and have to come through the back door entry of Rajya Sabha.

Only thing that Pratibha Patil has done in her political career was to refuse to sign the anti-conversion bill of Rajasthan.

By: Zartab Haider

Zartab Haider — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:23:21 +0000

So here goes the surprise package.

Pratibha Patil is almost certain to be the next President of India based on the number game.

I agree with Girish here that her candidature is a certificate to her loyalty than her own personality. I personally dont feel that she carries a personality to represent India in front of the other Dynamic Leaders of the World.

She doesnt have the Charisma and I dont think that she would be dynamic, Sonia played her cards well by selecting a woman Candidate but she fails in nominating the best for India.

By: Girish

Girish — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 02:09:45 +0000

I am not happy with this choice of Presidential candidate and not because she is a woman. I would be delighted if we have a woman President, but more so if it were somebody who had earned that position. Somebody who was there because of her merit and not because of how loyal she has been to The Family in her political history.

We are probably back to the era of supplicant Presidents, if indications are correct. I hope it is not true, but her profile is not very different from that of Giani Zail Singh, who once famously said that he would happily sweep the floor for Madam if asked to do so (nothing wrong with sweeping floors – I do it all the time – but the expression was meant to suggest that he would be her slave and supplicant).

I hope Pratibha Patil, who is most likely our next President, lives up to the standards set by Kalam in his Presidency and does some good while enjoying her retirement in Rashtrapati Bhavan (actually she was in retirement in the Jaipur Raj Bhavan before this and did nothing earthshaking there, so not too many hopes of that changing now). Good luck to her in any case.