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Next President

Sir, — With the Presidential elections just a few weeks away, there has been much talk about who the next President should be. For a poor country like India the amount of money that goes into the maintenance of the President's Secretariat is staggering. The 2001-02 budget for the Rashtrapati Bhavan was approximately Rs. 9 crores. No candidate seems to be a visionary such as Rajendra Prasad or Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. So, do we need a President?

Sairam Sanath Kumar,
Thrissur, Kerala

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