Monday, July 23, 2012

People’s President

Forty-three years after Mr Pranab Mukherjee first entered the Rajya Sabha, he has become the President winning 69.3 per cent of the total 10,29,750 votes polled, in a one-sided but bitter contest. In his first public comments after being elected, he has promised to do his best to protect, defend and preserve the Constitution. This reflects his commitment to constitutional responsibility. President-elect Mr. Pranab Mukherjee is going to be sworn in on 25-7-2012 as the 13th President of India. The victory of Mukherjee was a foregone conclusion on the basis of Electoral College arithmetic. Mukherjee defeated BJP-backed presidential candidate with a very big margin. Barring cross voting of some MLAs and MPs in the BJP-ruled state of Karnataka in favour of UPA candidate, overeall voting has taken place on expected political line. BJP-backed presidential candidate Mr. P A Sangama has not only suffered crushing defeat at the hands of UPA candidate Mr.Pranab Mukherjee but the BJP-led NDA also lost two of its oldest allies- JD(U) and Shiv Sena. These two BJP allies cast their votes in favour of Mukherjee. BJP failed to gauze the mood of people and the overwhelming support for Pranab Mukherjee for the highest post of President. It deliberately did not allow the unanimity over the election of Mr. Pranab Mukherjee as President. The victory of Pranab Mukherjee also amply reflects the mastery of UPA strategy in the election. There is no match for Pranab Mukherjee so far as political, intellectual and statesmanlike traits are concerned in the present day politicians. Pranab Mukherjee is politician extra-ordinaries. He is a walking encyclopaedia. Pranab Mukherjee could be the best prime minister after Jawaherlal Nehru and India Gandhi, but the destiny made him the President. Mr. Pranab Mukherjee has unbreakable connection with the people of India for more than four decades. He has been elected to the highest position of the nation not by chance but by sheer merit. He is a village man where the heart and soul of the nation finds its most comfortable abode. He has personally experienced the problems of covering 5 KMs on foot through muddy, broken roads to attend the school in inclement weather. So, Pranab Mukherjee is the most suitable politician to adorn the post of President of the nation. He is the only political personality who can relate and connect himself with rural and urban politician with equal ease.

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