Road from finance ministry to Rashtrapati Bhawan..

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee says he is concerned not depressed on weakening Indian economy. Dear Mr FM, I surmise you are rather depressed instead of being concerned after you discovered that you couldn't worsen country's economy anymore than its existing condition.

Poor Man!! Actually, you seem more depressed on presidential polls. You know that the Big Battle had never been so big for the previous presidential candidates who rather enjoyed support from all parties, but in your case, things have gone awry.

Thanks to your legendary Congress which remained adamant on your candidature because it didn't find anybody else in the party appropriate than you for the job of perfect puppet!!!

Or there are some other reasons behind your selection??

Isn’t it true that you became the natural and popular choice of your party because your proved your puppet-i-ness with such ingenuity that nobody else except Prime Minister Manmohan Singh could have dreamt of doing it with such an ease and comfort??

Yes, the PM could have been better choice than you for presidential candidate, but your party is intelligent enough to not to take such self-ridiculing decisions. After all, pitting the PM for one post up would have been ironically meant doubting his ability to run the country as an active premier. This is how, you came in picture.

Now as a finance minister, won't you concede that you never resisted in frequently implementing whimsical ideas of economical reforms tossed often by the ageing PM and the great deputy chairman of planning commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia who has turned the country into an economical laboratory to do research  on - "kaun banayega desh ko bhikhari? (कौन बनाएगा देश को भिखारी?)"??

The fact is dear Mr Pranb, you are a lost man as an FM. You are undoubtedly one of the most decent guys in the political arena, but alas, failure came to you in the fag end of your career.

Earlier, you seemed less interested in running for presidential race because you didn't want to be remembered as an escapist economist-turned-president.

Nonetheless, when you were rationalized that you wouldn't be able to bring Indian economy back to track and it was once in a lifetime opportunity to wash all the taints by taking a 5-year-long dip in political ganges called Rashtrapati Bhawan (the president's house), you couldn't decline the proposition.

If you really claim that you never played filthy politics and are a man of self-esteem then you should have asked the superwoman of your party not to put a full stop on your political career by sending you on final voyage. You could have publicly announced that Abdul Kalam was more deserving candidate than you for the president post.

Contrarily, Kalam opted to remain out of the game because he twigged that he would never be a unanimous choice to serve the nation again at highest non-political seat.

But Mr Pranab, you are depressed because PA Sangma, your old colleague and other contender for presidential post, wants you to debate with him before both of you would be tested by those who themselves are failure in public eyes.

Why are you hesitant in debating? When you guys at Centre never hesitate in justifying your erratic decisions that eventually cause sufferings to the nation then why can’t you take challenge and reply the questions put by your opponent regarding your candidature?

Again, you will say it is politics and you ought not respond every tom, dick and harry. While we the common people call it double standard. Prove why you are most appropriate choice for presidential post than Kalam, Sangma or anybody else whose name has been put forward by some or the other political party.