
Union Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde was one of the presidential aspirants. It8217;s a different matter that he never made it to that post, pipped to the post by a female Marathi.
Now people who do such things can read a lot into the fact that even a week after Pratibha Patil was sworn in as the President, pictures of former president APJ Abdul Kalam along with pictures of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi continue to adorn the Power Minister8217;s chamber.