President polls and Controversy

President polls were never like this before. There was a feeling of respect for any candidate who fights for president post, all candidates were used to be "Bedag". We have never seen political games being played in president election but this time scenario is different.

The presidential polls have assumed a murky hue with the widow of a murdered Congress leader from Jalgaon in Maharashtra surfacing in the national capital to accuse UPA-Left nominee Pratibha Patil of shielding her brother, G N Patil, one of the prime accused in the case being probed by the CBI.

A notice from the Mumbai Central District Co-operative Bank—popularly known as Mumbai Bank—to a Jalgaon sugar factory floated by Pratibha Patil, UPA candidate for the presidential poll, for default of a loan to the tune of Rs 17.70 crore has created a flutter in political circles.

All these allegation could be a part of political game but there might be something fishy which is not a good sign for Indian politics.

"Jahan doohan utha hai wahan thodi aag bhi hoti he hai".