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        Perhaps Abraham Lincoln had politicians like Mrs Prathiba Patil of today in view when he wrote the following prophetic words to W H Herndon in 1861: “The struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions”. Concealment, evasion, factious combinations, the surrender of all convictions to Sonia Gandhi, the de facto dictator of India today like Mussolini in Italy from 1922 to 1943, the systematic pursuit of expediency totally committed to shameless self-aggrandizement-these seem to be the over-riding credentials of Mrs Prathiba Patil. All these disgusting and disgraceful credentials have been sponsored by the Congress Party functioning as 'Servants of Sonia Society' (SOSS) today. The noble and sacred tradition of selfless public work in our national history initiated by Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866-1915) in 1905 has been given a death blow forever by an Italian lady called Sonia Gandhi and her private inherited estate called the 'Servants of Sonia Society' (SOSS) by their putting up a totally unfit and unworthy candidate for the highest Office of the President of India

        When Gopal Krishna Gokhale founded the Servants of India Society in Pune on 12 June, 1905, he pledged to carry out his national public service in a religious spirit and to promote, by all constitutional means, the national spirit of the India people. The founding of this brotherhood was the outcome of Gokhale's convictions that if the masses were to be liberated to function as active members of free India, they must have a band of selfless and intelligent workers who would dedicate their lives to the service of the nation. These workers must take the vow of renunciation, give up all ideas of selfishness, pride, fame and be one with their work and duty. The members of the Servants of India Society were trained to be nationalistic missionaries, and Gokhale inculcated in them virtues of fearlessness, truth, courage and firmness. Sonia Gandhi has proposed the name of Mrs. Prathiba Patil precisely for the reason that her proven public track record, both in the Congress Party and Government, has been totally devoid of these cardinal virtues.

        Under the anti-national leadership of Sonia Gandhi, the Congress Party has become a party of men with such credential as can be appropriately described only in the following words of the poet of American Democracy Walt Whitman (1819-1892): “The members who composed it (any Democratic Party National Convention prior to the Civil War) were, seven-eighths of them, the meanest kind of bawling and blowing officeholders, office-seekers, pimps, malignant, conspirators, murderers, fancy-men, kept-editors, spaniels well-trained to carry and fetch, jobbers, infidels, disunionists, terrorists, slave catchers, pushers of slavery, spies, bribers, compromisers, lobbyers, sponges, expelled gamblers, Policy-backers, carriers of concealed weapons, deaf men, pimpled men, scarred inside with vile disease, gaudy outside with gold chains made from the people's money and harlots' money twisted together; crawling, serpentine men, the lousy combinings and born freedom-sellers of the earth”.

        The above words of Walt Whitman are very relevant to the Indian situation created by the Congress Party and its partners in the UPA Alliance today. Mrs Prathiba Patil is supposed to be a champion of women's rights, women's emancipation and women's liberation. She is supposed to be an educationalist of world stature. She is supposed to be the founding architect of micro co-operative banking in the Vidharba region. A harbinger of rural socio economic development in Jalegaon and Amaravathi Districts of Maharashtra. Regarding her established, proven and splendid credentials as a public worker, I would like to present the following facts highlighted by Arun Shourie in his brilliant article entitled “Electing a President, rashtramaataa, Prathiba Patil, True Story (the financial frauds, the murder, the deliberate derailment of the investigation)

        Arun Shourie introduces the pseudo- secularly Sonia sublime subject in a saffronized and communal manner as follows: 'A big step for women… This shows India has a lot of respect for women… My nomination will inspire other women and help their empowerment…' – that is how Pratibha Patil described her selection as the UPA candidate for being our President. Loyalists, of course, went one better. 'A firm believer in women's causes and a tireless champion of spreading education among girls… One who always stands for a better deal for women… active role in checking such evils as female foeticide and dowry...' 'Working women of Mumbai hail…' 'Yes, Ma'am Commander' – Armymen look forward to reporting to first woman Supreme Commander of Armed Forces…And all this within two days of her selection.

        Her bio-data lists her 'special interests' as 'development of rural economy and welfare of women', and lists as evidence, 'Establishment of Pratibha Mahila Sahakari Bank at Jalgaon, Maharashtra… of Mahila Vikas Mahamandal…' It records her being Managing Trustee, Shram Sadhana Trust, as her being the 'Chief Promoter and Chairperson of Sugar Factory in Jalgaon District'. It records her having set up the Engineering College 'for the benefit of rural youth'…

        Let me now present with bated breath the bare and lurid facts about Prathiba Patil's resplendent magnificence and luminosity.

        A) THE PRATIBHA MAHILA SAHAKARI BANK-The Co-operative Bank set up by Mrs Prathiba Patil in her own name in 1973 (with herself as its first Chairperson) to help rural women below the poverty line. Many members of her own family were its founding directors. Mrs. Pratibha Patil herself became a director for several terms. As for members of her family, they inter-changed, among themselves, the chairs of the Board of Directors in one 'election' after another. But while others changed places, Pratibha Patil continued as Founder Chairperson right till the demise of the bank in 2003. All the main line English Print and TV Media today, with pseudo secular commitment, carefully avoid mentioning the brutal fact that this bank was liquidated under orders of the Reserve Bank of India in 2003 on the telling ground that its continuance would be prejudicial to the interests of depositors. But this shameful fact will in no way be prejudicial to the nomination of Mrs Pratibha Patil for the highest Office of President of India. To our great national misfortune and disgrace, if she happens to win the election, she will become the most classic instance of a successful President with shady credentials in our failed Banana State.

        B) WHO GOT THE LOANS??

        Like Sonia Gandhi helping Rahul Gandhi to get elected as a Member of Parliament from one of her Pocket-Boroughs in UP, Mrs. Pratibha Patil as Chairperson helped the following assetless members of her family, living below the poverty line, to obtain loans for the acquisition of small assets like Milch Cows, Bicycles, Auto-Rickshaws etc (!!!). These poor people never repaid the loans. Here are the details which tell the heart rending story about this helplessly poor people.
 

        The man point to be noted from the above table is that millions of women in the region of operation of THE PRATIBHA MAHILA SAHAKARI BANK in Maharashtra were helped by Mrs Pratibha Patil through her family members listed above and all of whom required the help of Mrs. Pratibha Patil to lift themselves above the poverty line. Behind the pseudo-Secular female Pardha (veil!) of Mrs. Pratibha Patil, we can see the Dance of the Dervishes of the male members of her family!!. Such a great woman with a tremendous record of self -chosen poverty, simplicity and self-sacrifice has been collectively proposed by three other international giants like Sonia Gandhi, Karunanidhi and Mayavathi (with the same track record of service and self sacrifice like Mrs. Pratibha Patil) for the highest Office of the President of India.

        C) AS A CHAMPION OF EMPLOYEES' UNIONS:

        Perhaps Mrs Pratibha Patil is being solidly supported by CPI (M) and CPI only because she is a great Champion of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat as defined by Karl Marx and Lenin!! The Cooperative Bank Employees Union wrote one memorandum after another exposing how the Directors of the Pratibha Mahila Sahakari Bank were systematically bankrupting the bank. They demanded dismissal of the family-controlled board. They demanded a CBI inquiry against Pratibha Patil. Let us hear from her own employees on her motherly concern and compassion for Labour interests which has won the hearts of Prakash Karat, Seetharam Yechuri, Brinda Karat, Raja and other Lenins, Karl Marxs and Mao Tse Tungs of todays India. All of them are supporting the candidature of Mrs. Pratibha Patil for the Office of the President of India because with the above credentials she will give a beautiful and concrete shape to the attainable dreams of Karl Marx and Lenin about the “Withering Away of the State” and the advancement of the cause of the proletariat.