Saturday, June 23, 2007
Presidential elections - choices look difficult, small.
Mamata Banerjee says Kalam is her first choice, but he is unlikely to stand for another term, failing which she would possbly have to support Bhairon Singh Shekhawat Yet, political circles feel that it will be a tough choice for Mamata Banerjee not to support a woman candidate, when she has always fought the fight for women empowerment from the front.
To some, presidential nominee Pratibha Patil is still looking like just a governor of Rajasthan, more a staunch loyalist of the Nehru-Gandhi family.
She is accused of shielding her brother who is charged with murdering a man in 2005 and alleging that a sugar factory owned by her owed huge sums of money to a cooperative bank. Usual sleaze allegations in short, but sadly such allegations are sometimes true.
Shiv Sena, which stands to lose an ally as much as the Congress in the event of a realignment of political forces, has come out in support of 73 year old Pratibha Patil. “In politics, such allegations are only to be expected,” Bal Thackeray said, virtually giving a clean chit to the first presidential candidate from Maharashtra.
To some, presidential nominee Pratibha Patil is still looking like just a governor of Rajasthan, more a staunch loyalist of the Nehru-Gandhi family.
She is accused of shielding her brother who is charged with murdering a man in 2005 and alleging that a sugar factory owned by her owed huge sums of money to a cooperative bank. Usual sleaze allegations in short, but sadly such allegations are sometimes true.
Shiv Sena, which stands to lose an ally as much as the Congress in the event of a realignment of political forces, has come out in support of 73 year old Pratibha Patil. “In politics, such allegations are only to be expected,” Bal Thackeray said, virtually giving a clean chit to the first presidential candidate from Maharashtra.
# posted by uv : 7:10 PM
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