The first citizen race

Deciding a presidential nominee in 2012 is likely to be a last-minute affair. Interestingly, it is not the ruling party which has set the ball rolling, as used to be the case in the past. Instead, it is the UPA allies who have wrested the initiative from the ruling Congress. And they are not working to install a Congress nominee in the Rashtrapati Bhavan. It wasn't always like this. There was a time when the exercise of electing the country's...

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