Shall we tell the president??

First of all, I am not alluding to the Jeffrey Archer novel...................

For the last couple of weeks, I have been noticing a certain campaign being carried out in the media about the forthcoming election to the post of the 'President of India'. In fact a few mails that were being circulated, urged the reader to support the cause of reinstating the current President for a second term. The funny part was a few TV channels ran a morning -till-night poll where the viewers could sms their votes. And the candidates in the fray were a filmstar, a technocrat, a couple of well known statesmen and the current President himself. Though these exercises are commonplace, most of know that the President of our country is elected by the political parties and not directly by the people. Moreover the post of the President in our country is merely a constitutional requirement rather than anything else. Though people like Dr Abdul Kalam have tried to usher in some positive changes while at the 'esteemed' office, the post of the President largely remains a 'figure head'. The head of the constitution (also the head of the Armed forces) ironically is powerless when it comes taking decisions about polilty. I frankly feel it would make more sense if the President can be bestowed with more powers or if not possible why not do away with the post itself?

Well I know this is not the most urgent issue facing the nation but I think its time we do away with defunct positions and starting looking at things more in the sense of what is needed and what is not.........................