"Pranab for Prez?"

"Pranab for Prez?" cartoon by Chaitanya Raj Goyal

With all this hearty support from most political parties but Trinamool and Team Anna, will Pranab Mukherjee make it to the 'Golden Gate'?? He has tried on numerous occasions earlier also to reach out for the post of PM and President, but to no avail. Will his hard work pay off this time? Nominating Mukherjee for President has sparked out an unseen, unnoticed war between ambitions and responsibilities.

Mukherjee, who also holds the reins of the Indian Financial Ministry is gladly ready to wash his hands off the responsibility of running the Financial Ministry and bringing it out of the current economic crisis, which is probably the worst that the nation has witnessed post 1991 and we all know who's responsible. Yes! Of course, someone like PC will take over , but is this to be taken so lightly? " Dude, I am moving to the Rashtrapati Bhavan, you handle the crumbling nation, the free fall of the rupee, the falling investments and the GDP and the rising interest rates,...I m sure you'll do great!!...Oh yes!...Don't forget the hungry stomachs - Veges are really costly for them now-a-days!"

Is there no one else in the country who can do justice to the position of the "Rubber Stamp"? Someone with such special skill set as required to be the president of India?? Someone who doesn't hold such critical positions of responsibility? Of course there are....There's Kalam, Sangama, Ansari, Chaterjee and many others. But NO! It has to be Pranab for PREZ!

Probably Pranab is of the view that, no one really cared for the team's loss when Tendulkar scored his 100th ton against Bangladesh, so "let the economy go in dumps, I'll pull their attention towards 'My 100th ton'." How our politicians put their self interest above their country's is well visible through such incidences! As they said in 'Shanghai' - "Jai Bharat!"