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| Citizens prefer Kalam as President |
| In the poll, conducted over the last four days, 31,500 people voted by sms and on NDTV.com.
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| INDIA
, 25-June-2007
2:41:13 AM |
| Even though he has withdrawn from the race, President APJ Abdul Kalam topped a poll conducted by NDTV, getting 69 per cent of the votes.
In the poll, conducted over the last four days, 31,500 people voted by sms and on NDTV.com.
The surprise second place went to Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat with 17 per cent of the votes and the UPA's candidate Pratibha Patil came in third with 14 per cent of the votes.
President Kalam, the supreme commander of the armed forces, flying the Sukhoi 30 on June 8, 2006, was a moment that went down in history.
It was a moment when he literally walked and flew with his men.
It was a more overt expression of his popular, unorthodox manner. Others were more subtle like when he decided he didn't need his ADC to stand behind him when he delivered a speech.
He could hold his papers himself and if need be, fill his own glass and his chair could be the same as anybody else's at public functions.
Apparently, till then, it was the done thing to have the President's chair a little bigger than the others' and he definitely didn't someone tying his shoelaces for him.
''It's not like he didn't adhere to protocol at all but there are some things which are not in the blue book but have just become a part of Presidential practice over the years. They did not go with President Kalam's ideas,'' said SM Khan, President's spokesman.
But the change goes beyond the 340 rooms of the Rashtrapati Bhawan and its employees.
People's president
With a little help from the world wide web, the president has managed to touch other lives as well.
Arundhati Dandapani, Kalam admirer, wrote to him a few years ago to tell him about a book she wrote when she was in school.
''You know I had heard that he always writes back. So I wrote to him and asked to meet him and he did, and it was so nice. He is a very nice man,'' said Dandapani.
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