The foot that doesn’t fit any Shoe

No Bengali has ever been president of India. The closest this came to happening was in 1982 when the Opposition parties — right to left — nominated Professor Hiren Mukherjee of the CPI as a joint candidate against the overwhelming favourite, Zail Singh of the Congress. As it happened, despite being a multi-term MP and a political and academic veteran, Mukherjee was declared ineligible to contest because his name was missing from the electoral rolls.

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