Saturday, May 26, 2007

APJ Abdul Kalam- A Fine President !!

I can say with a certain amount of confidence that APJ Abdul Kalam is liked by a majority of the 'knowledgeable' civilian population of India. His fairness, honesty, intelligence, achievements, integrity and refusal to dance to the tunes of political parties has endeared him to much of India. Although the Presidential post is a largely ceremonial one in India, it still holds some significance since the world's largest democracy wouldn't want to have a meek and spineless President. That would be an insult to India. However, in spite of him being quite popular, it is the politicians, sadly, who will get to call the shots while electing the next President. Most of them do not have any love for President Kalam because they obviously have difficulty dealing with a straightforward, forthright and frank President who has also recently suggested and rightly so, a stable two-party political system in India, to save India from, if I may take the liberty of saying so, the mess of 'insane' and 'paralysing' coalition politics.

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