06-21-2007, 10:18 PM
What the ffff... Who is Pawar to advice Kalam? and using cricket lingo to do it. Bad enough he cannot stop farmer suicides, horrible that the BCCI has reached rock bottom, now he says Kalam should not play? <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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Agencies | New Delhi
NCP leader and Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar today virtually gone ahead of its purview to ask President APJ Abdul Kalam not to be a "player" in the Presidential fray.
Ruling out its support for Kalam Pawar said, "he will not be at the crease. So, he will not be in the game. He will not be a player," NCP chief Sharad Pawar, who also heads the cricket control board, told reporters after signing nomination papers favouring UPA-Left candidate Pratibha Patil.
Describing Kalam as an "honest person to the core", Pawar said, however, it was a "pity" that a person occupying the highest post had suddenly started talking of a contest after having declared he was not at all interested in the fray.
"The match is over for Kalam ... We do not expect the game to be started again. We are very clear about that," Pawar said.
The NCP leader took a dig at Kalam for saying that he would contest if he was sure of victory.
"In a democracy, anyone interested in public life can contest Lok Sabha elections from whichever constituency one likes. But one cannot say that he will contest only if he wins," he said. <i>(yeah, right, pawar is the one to talk, the *hole disbarred/expelled dalmia on some 1996 charges so that he would not have competition on bcci, he talks of fairplay! Heights of hypocrisies here)</i>
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Agencies | New Delhi
NCP leader and Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar today virtually gone ahead of its purview to ask President APJ Abdul Kalam not to be a "player" in the Presidential fray.
Ruling out its support for Kalam Pawar said, "he will not be at the crease. So, he will not be in the game. He will not be a player," NCP chief Sharad Pawar, who also heads the cricket control board, told reporters after signing nomination papers favouring UPA-Left candidate Pratibha Patil.
Describing Kalam as an "honest person to the core", Pawar said, however, it was a "pity" that a person occupying the highest post had suddenly started talking of a contest after having declared he was not at all interested in the fray.
"The match is over for Kalam ... We do not expect the game to be started again. We are very clear about that," Pawar said.
The NCP leader took a dig at Kalam for saying that he would contest if he was sure of victory.
"In a democracy, anyone interested in public life can contest Lok Sabha elections from whichever constituency one likes. But one cannot say that he will contest only if he wins," he said. <i>(yeah, right, pawar is the one to talk, the *hole disbarred/expelled dalmia on some 1996 charges so that he would not have competition on bcci, he talks of fairplay! Heights of hypocrisies here)</i>
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