RSS FeedsPratibha Patil Becomes President
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21 Jul
2007 |
India elected Pratibha Patil as the country’s first female president Saturday in a vote seen as a victory for the hundreds of millions of Indian women who contend with widespread discrimination. [ link ]
Just one reaction: bull shit. She became President just to empower a single woman. Anyway, we deserve it.
Here’s a nice post on Abdul Kalam, strangely, by Rajdeep Sardesai. It seems the Leftists are the biggest scoundrels on this planet because only a criminally insane person can make such observations:
a senior left leader had dismissed President Kalam’s popularity as an “SMS” phenomenon. Kalam, it was suggested, was an idol only for a section of the Indian middle class whose voting preferences were not expressed in the ballot box but in much-hyped television contests designed to pump up ratings and revenues. A presidential election, we were reminded, was fought in the electoral college of MPs and MLAs, not in air-conditioned television studios.
In a recently telecast TV debate a frothing Nilotpal (or Nirotpal, whatever) Basu said that Kalam was not intelligent enough to be the President. I wished someone could give him a tight slap there and then, not for having a different opinion, but for being such an arrogant snob.
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If the congress is so concerned about empowering women,then Sonia Gandhi should herself become the Prime Minister. The biggest way that Pratibha Patil can empower women is to empower herself. If she can openly speak against the government and hold an independent view over issues and is not influenced by party lines and party politics, nothing like it. I still fail to understand though, how making a women president will change the life of millions of women in this country. The kind of hype created with regard to this seems to suggest as if the ministry of social welfare and other ministries and departments working for women’s welfare are directly going to be controlled by the Rashtrapati Bhawan. Mind you, its not so. Having the first women president doesn’t mean the the constitution of India will change. The executive head of the country is still the Prime Minister.
So, what has actually changed by Pratibha Patil being the President. Nothing except the powers of Sonia Gandhi. She has again proved, how easily she can make a fool out of we STUPID EMOTIONAL INDIANS. LAGI RAHO SONIA GANDHI
yes. the weekend was considerably saddened even for me, a complete not-interested-in-ploitics person.