It is quiet funny to read many articles and polls of the so called educated and young people in india, rising many reasons to continue Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam as the president of India for the next 5 years. Tiger agree, Dr. Kalam is a great man dreaming a developed india, he is a great scientist and above all, he is very good in motivating Indian youth. You may ask why I am saying it’s funny then, I will explain to you the reason. Before that, can you give any solid reason other than the “smoke” why you want Kalam to continue?.
In your village there will be very nice person, may be the Vicar or a Poojari or a Musliar, they will be best in their assigned work, but if you want to drive a car from Calicut to Mumbai, you wont select this persons, the experience in driving is the matter there. Vicar is good when he is doing church related work, for driving, there are people more suitable than vicar, and we have to consider a vicar only when there is no other option. In same way if one lead the missile project or nuclear project, it shows, he is very good in that field. Also we have to give all support to continue him in that way and in the present world that has a great importance. The post of President of Republic of India is not meant to give as a “reward” for the good deeds of a person. But those who hold that glorious post should have experience in Indian politics.
According to Indian constitution the power of the president is like “a huge tree, but no place even for a bird to sit”. President has the supreme power in india but can do nothing different from what the cabinet insists. The parlement will pass some bill, and the president is supposed to sign over it, thats it – Yes the rubber stamp. President can return the file to review but if the cabinet forward the same file again, it is the rare of the rarest case that, a president will reject it to review again.
Kalam also did almost same as what his predecessor did. But he was successful to make common people think that he did something great. All are prising Kalam like ” Beeran-ammad saw the fox: beeran-ammad will tell you there are 100s of foxes, then if you ask where ?, he will tell oh not 100 but one or two and finally if you ask again he will answer sorry that’s not fox at all, but “just the sound of dried leaves”. The words of those who know nothing about the politicas of india (if they don’t have any other hidden ajendas), about Kalam is not very different from this.
Now, about Mrs. PRATIBHA PATIL: Many are saying she is unknown, but they should know one thing, she is unknown to the public because she never involved in any Scandal or Bribery.Those who know a little bit of indian politicas know how bold Pratibha is, I can tell you some of many examples – In the male dominated india it is not easy for a female to reach powerful posts in india like Chief minister, It is a publicized secret that, Prathibha lost the Chief Minister post of Maharastra only because of some political game played by some circles of Indira Gandhi, while she was the most suitable and expected person for that position. Her performance, as the opposition leader in Maharastra Legislative assembly was excellent, and the most famous one, that made every secular indian remember Pratibha as a powerfull leader, is her rejection of the “ban on Conversion bill” of Rajasthan Assembly when she was the Governor of Rajastan, which shows us the secular person in Prathibha. Also, she was the deputy chair person of Rajya Sabha, when Kalam was experimenting with micriscope and tellescope. Above all she is running many relief foundations both inside and outside Rajasthan, hence she knows the heart beat of poor India very well.
However, unfortunately, since Pratibha is not so interested in making money illegally, she could not involve in any corruption case. If there is not even a single petti case against a person, how one can be famous in india ?.
If a you say Dr.Kalam did many things, tiger is happy with the presidential candidature of Prathibha Patil, bacause, if a person like Kalam who doesn’t have any political experience before, can do the things you are saying(if any), Prathibha, the one with more than a quarter centurey of active, clean, faithful, political experience, can do much more than that. Furthermore, a politician can perform well in improving forign relations than a scientist. That is the most importent for us in the present India.
Tiger want to see an India with all it’s citizens above poverty line, rather than having missile launch station and nuclear weapons in every Panchayath. Tiger prefer “wings of peace” rather than “wings of fire”.
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Thoughts of tigersamachar is always different from others, that’s why tigersamachar is not one among many, but a special one.
