CHOOSING A PM, NOT A CRICKET CAPTAIN.

Manmohan Singh has already undergone a triple by-pass surgery and is now due for another one and he is 77 years old and still an aspirant for the Indian PM's post again. L.K.Advani, a few years older has had no medical problems even though Vajpayee has been living on a single kidney even when he was PM and is considered to be best the PM India ever had because he became PM thrice through three successive elections!

George Bush is an apt example of what blunders young chief executives can make just as Rajiv Gandhi had committed as PM. Recall all the sexcapades and scandals of the young Nehru/Gandhi family members like Vijay Lakshmi Pandit and Indira Gandhi who had to be thrown out of Gurudev's Shantiniketan due to leading an intemperate life.

There are too many skeletons in the Nehru/Gandhi family's cupboards which they had acquired since they were young that includes Nehru himself,Rajiv Gandhi (stealing diplomats' cars in Delhi)and Sanjiv, renamed Sanjay Gandhi also, whose biological father is Muhammad Yunus. Those who are skeptical can disprove this by matching the DNAs of Varun Feroze Gandhi, Sanjay and Menaka Gandhi’s son and Adil Shahryar an ex-felon and the son of Muhammad Yunus, the in house guest of Indira Gandhi for many years.

Another skeleton in the Congress and particularly in the Nehru/Gandhi cupboard is the true story behind the death of Netaji Subhas Bose and his disappearance. The British had declared him to be a war criminal on record which the Nehru led Congress in power continued to maintain throughout till the BJP government had it removed. The lie that his ashes are kept in an urn in the Renkoji temple in Japan can be quickly established if his DNA sample is matched with that of his surviving daughter Anita Bose Pfaff. Are there any takers from the Congress Party of which Netaji was once the President?

Mukesh or Anil Ambani is no patch on their father Dhirubhai’s business acumen even after he had that massive paralytic stroke in his last days. Guys, we are choosing a PM not a cricket captain to lead a nation of over 1 billion. Advani is not only physically fit, highly read and mentally agile but also has a squeaky clean image. Even Narsimha Rao as PM was aghast when Advani had of his own resigned from Parliament after Rao tried to falsely implicate him in the Jain Havala case. When Rao asked him what was the need for such an extreme step as "Sab kuch chalta hey in Indian politics," Advani had replied that, "One vicious act needs to be countered with another vicious act. And I will not enter Parliament again till I am honourably exonerated of all charges." We all know he did keep his word till the end.

Our's is a Parliamentary form of democracy where nearly 900 MPs from both houses legislate. Add to that hundreds or thousands of bureaucrats in the country who actually run India. Advani is going to head a coalition called NDA which will comprise of other parties as well. Therefore, what we need is a calm headed person like Advani who can keep the coalition together which a hot headed youngster is quite incapable of doing. Had our's been a Presidential form like the USA then all this age related capability factors of a single Commander-in-Chief would have been vital like a blundering Bush ordering US Marines into Iraq.

No Indian PM can take such unilateral decision without obtaining a consensus from his Cabinet Ministers or even the Opposition. That is why despite being a Sardar(the brave and valorous Sikhs believe that 1 Sardar is equal to 1.25 lakhs of ordinary humans) a whining Manmohan Singh has a mouse like Pranab Mukherjee issuing veiled threats to Pakistan every evening over TV channels in order to ensure that the BJP does not jump into the Nationalist space.

What has India done on its own after 26/11 except going and crying to the rest of the world? Do we want a government that cannot act on its own but needs crutches to be provided by foreign countries that have their own selfish agendas to fulfill? Just because the Congress Party and its stalwarts depend on its own Mommy staying at 10, Janpath, New Delhi, this government thinks there are several other Mothers out there to provide India with comfort. Tough Luck-just forget it.