Do we really have a choice?

A P J Abdul Kalam is drawing close to complete his first term as the President of India. Even before he realizes this fact there have been a lot of rumors doing the rounds so as to who should be the successor once this charismatic personality dethrones the post. Very few in the Govt. circles are envisaging the case for him being offered to continue for yet another term.Anyways who(read politick junta) would like a President ,who also dons the cap of being a rocket scientist and specially so when a few of the ruling ministers would find it difficult to even spell the word “scientist”correctly!It ha long been argued that the President is elected not by the masses but the classes(political).But what we fail to realize is that the President is the true representative of the people ,as we tend to look up to the President to address us during situations we deem as important to national causes. The glaring example of one such situation being the hanging of Mohd. Afzal where we expected the President to address the issue. Although there have been similar such issues in the past too but the President being only a constitutional post failed to make any impression until this prestigious post has been redefined by our erstwhile Mr. A P J Abdul Kalam.
Even Kalam’s reaction of “Fantastic” when asked for his response to the idea of Infosys’s founder as president speaks volumes regarding his persona. How many of the political leaders would have reacted in a similar way and especially so when they knew that they were one of the persons in contention for the post that is being talked about. As T N Seshan did the overhaul of the overshadowed EC and J M Lyngdoh carried the tradition further we can’t find a better person than the Infosys chief to replace the aura of the outgoing president. Also the person makes a good case for himself as he has been at the helm of the company affairs ever since he founded it. He’s managed people, resources, finances and what ever that comes to mind when we think about organizations and he’s done all this exceedingly well. This itself brushes aside the claim that a professional would find it difficult to deal with bureaucracy prevalent in the political system as this would be a new challenge for the poster boy of Indian IT to groom the existing people according to his own liking. And he is never been learnt to make any compromises and so do we hope although this spells trouble for the stubborn leaders who find it difficult to change but for money! And here is, N R Narayan Murthy who is the sole soul on the IT bandwagon industry pressing ahead with the need for these (IT) behemoths to pay taxes in India.
The phenomenal growth enjoyed by Infosys may not be replicated by him but he is sure to do a job much better than most of the other options that are being talked about. I would like to even go a step further and propose that we grant Mr.Murthy a full two terms from the onset so that the vision he aspires about India sees the light of the day, so that his long term goals actually walk from paper to the implementation side. The power corridors have long been tainted by the cobwebs of bureaucracy and struggle for power. We want Mr.Murthy to take on the onus and sweep away these discrepancies so that we have a clean system to look forward to. We want you, Mr.Murthy to speak for us for we are ready to lend our voices to you as long as you need them!