Aires, you are absolutely right. The BJP/RSS halfwits & bigots seem determined to appoint assorted mediocrities, peasants, sadhus & the like to high office. They have made some yogi fellow the CM of UP and now it's another joker for President. Ideally, a President should be a philosopher-statesman, an intellectual of standing, one who can formulate an integral vision. [Think of Lee Kwan Yu of Singapore or Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam.] There have never been such leaders in India. Nehru did have some distinction. Why? Because the British were gracious enough to educate him in England. But sadly most Indian senior politicians come out as tired old men, intellectual lightweights, with poor communication or negotiating skills and little diplomatic flair. They lack the poise, style, vitality, wit or sparkle; facial features seem glacial; expression wooden or vacuous, manner charmless; diction poor, delivery humourless, content banal. They have little original to say; they just regurgitate stock material. And there is little commitment to ethics or high principle.And before western leaders, they are deferential and self-deprecating.The current leader, Modi, has been dying to meet his hero Trump and will be offered a dinner at the White House. The price? The purchase of some $2 billion of US military equipment. Modi is also due meet the Israeli leader Netanyahu shortly and will be duly dined. The price? An arms deal worth about $2 billion.
The fact is that unless India makes these costly purchases, both US & Israeli leaders will ignore him. Mode feels at home with them because, like him, both hate Muslims. Eddie ======================================= On Saturday, 24 June 2017, 18:28, Aires Rodrigues <airesrodrigu...@gmail.com> wrote: The BJP has once again displayed its sheer political bankruptcy by selecting a very mediocre lackluster and partisan Ram Nath Kovind as its candidate for the very august post of President of India. Instead of rising above party politics and choosing an inspiring, bright and a visionary for the coveted post, Prime Minister Narendra Modi who was scouting for a Yes-man rubber stamp President found Ram Nath Kovind who shares the ideology of the RSS and the Sangh Parivar. After converting all Raj Bhavans across India into BJP dens, now the Rashtrapati Bhavan will be another BJP super saffron den on par with the Nagpur one. Aires Rodrigues Advocate High Court Twitter@rodrigues_aires www.airesrodrigues.com
