Who would be the First Citizen???

The Presidential elections are around the corner. The electoral college is going to put its "supposed" intelligence to test. Well, not really... the fate of the fabulous Rashtrapati Bhavan has been decided.

Its going to be the wonderful Pratibha Patil. The one lady who believes in ghosts and spooks, and has spooked out a co-operative bank, and also has been accused of shielding her brother from accusations of murder.

WOW!!! Feels so wonderful, that the countries highest office is being occupied by such a luminary. Wonder if we could have some exorcists to keep her company, in case she starts doing a Whoopi Goldberg (from the 1990 movie Ghost). Now that this has struck me, it would indeed be wonderful.

It would be welcome experience if the spirits of  Dr. Radhakrishnan S. , Dr. Rajendra Prasad, or Indira Gandhi etc, could come down and possess her!!!

I am just not able to comprehend why they would want this lady as the President of India? If its really a  matter of showing that women are really empowered in today's India, wouldn't Dr. Kiran Bedi be a wonderful choice? Perhaps, Dr. Kiran Bedi would have been a choice of the intelligentsia. But the current sequence of events indicates that the electoral college does not have any. Maybe it has few.

So given an option I wonder if we still would have Pratibha Patil as our President. Apart from our honorary electoral college,( yeah right, honorary!!),  we have a celebrity who is also vouching for her.

I used to think Preity Zinta was a sensible lady, but I guess sometimes sensibilities do take a backseat...

This is what she said...

'' I support the candidature of Ms Patil. It has nothing to do with politics. It is for the first time that a woman has got the chance to adorn the highest seat of power and I think our country is ready for it''.

As I said, she just blurted out in the spur of the moment, I would like to believe that. If not then she needs to keep her mouth shut and stop thinking. This is the trouble when people who are not supposed to think start thinking!!!