Letters: Ms Gandhi for the top job?

You have argued well for a change in government under a new prime minister. But your suggestion that Sonia Gandhi should take over as the prime minister came as an anticlimax. The populist, no-brainer policies that have strained the fiscal system and will continue to do so are the result of the recommendations of the National Advisory Council that Ms Gandhi chairs. Her lack of mass appeal has been proved more than once in elections. Thus, she is not even an asset to the Congress Party. Would you want a person with limited education and knowledge to head the government of a country that has had men and women of great intellect and integrity as leaders, and is facing myriad problems? Is it not humiliating? Ms Gandhi herself must be wondering why Indians have put her on a pedestal when she hasn’t done much for the country except for marrying Indira Gandhi’s son.

A Seshan, Mumbai

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