CONGRESS GOOGLY:PRATIBHA PATIL AS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE...

KN RAO

29 July 2007, 10:52 AM

I rang up a man in a television channel and asked him to tell his people to show some sense of humor. For more than a fortnight, while the media was speculating who would be the Congress candidate for the presidential race, many names were floated and discussed. Now see the drama.

It was Shivraj PATIL vs Bhairon Singh Shekawat said most of them and shouted. The guessing game went on till on the evening of 14 June at 6/48 pm the name of Pratibha PATIL(But she is MRS. SHEKHAWAT !! was announced.

Is the battle now between Shekhawat and Patil or Shekhawat and Shekhawat ? Her bio in the records of the Indian Parliament reads thus: Biographical Sketch Member of Parliament X Lok Sabha PATIL, SMT. PRATIBHA DEVISINGH Cong. (I) - Amravati (Maharashtra) Father's Name Shri Narayanrao Date of Birth 19th December, 1934 Place of Birth Distt. Jalgaon (Maharashtra) Marital Status Married on 7th July, 1965 Spouse's Name Shri Devisingh Ransingh Shekhawat Children One son and one daughter Educational Qualifications M.A., LL.B. Educated at M.J. College, Jalgaon (Maharashtra)

Then I saw the Indian Independence horoscope and it is Venus dasha continuing. More important, I saw the Indian Republican Horoscope and was that the dasha was Rahu-Ven-Mer-Ketu-Venus on 14 June 2007 when the announcement was made.

Of course, newspapers had carried many horoscopes of the possible candidates, many of them unauthenticated, and discussed the possibilities and made predictions. These were the horoscopes of male candidates only! It never struck anyone that we could have a female candidate for the presidential race.

It was a female, called Sonia Gandhi, who delivered the googly and proposed the name of Pratibha Patil. All males of all parties in UPA were clean bowled. When a right hander bowls a googly it is called googly but when a left hander does it it is called chinaman.

But what will you call this ---when a woman bowls a political googly, proposes the name of a female candidate ? It may take sometime when it will be revealed that Mayawati, a woman and Sonia Gandhi, another woman had this tacit understanding and had decided to confound all by bowling a googly.

When in history have women not fooled men ? The only other time a woman’s name got proposed nearly was that of Rukmini Arundale (born on 29 February) by Morarji Desai (29 Feb) though it never happened. But the joke then was that both celebrated their birthday once in four years--in leap years !!

THE MORAL OF THE STORY IS THAT IN THE YEAR 2007 THREE WOMEN, SONIA GANDHI, MAYAWATI AND PRATIBHA PATIL (SHEKHAWAT) FOOLED ALL MEN POLITICIANS.

The battle will be now perhaps Shekhawat vs. Shekhawat unless the male Shekhawat withdraws after terrible confusion. The battle is between two Rajasthanis.

( 14 June 2007 19/07pm)