Traveils of Ms. Going-2-B-First-Citizen

First of all, I fail to understand why only septuagenarians (and higher) are considered for the coveted title of First Citizen--The President--in a populous country like India where there is no dearth of people under any of the age bracket!

When did cotton head, spectacles, dentures become the prerequisite for running for President? As if failing physical health demonstrated enthusiastically by our former first citizens was not enough to judge them, Ms Pratibha Patil has gone a step further by demonstrating her failing (or ailing) gray cells with an uncalled (and unverified) remark that ladies were forced to wear veils to protect themselves from the Mughal invaders.

The lady who is running for President should at least think twice before:

• uttering something (even if reporters are thrusting their mikes into her mouth to hear her shaky frail voice) before verifying it
  
• stirring a hornet's nest with a communal remark in a secular (read sensitive) India

Learn some tact lady before gracing the throne! Being the first citizen is no joke!

You are not me to get away with shooting off your mouth!!!