India names first female president

NEW DELHI - India elected Pratibha Patil as the country's first female president Saturday in a vote seen as a victory for the hundreds of millions of Indian women who contend with widespread discrimination. 0

Patil received 65.82 percent of the votes cast by national lawmakers and state legislators, said Election Commission head P.D.T. Achary. She had been widely expected to win.

Patil, the 72-year-old candidate of the governing Congress party and its political allies, defeated incumbent Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, the candidate of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party.

"I am grateful to the people of India, to all the men and women of India," Patil said in a brief statement to reporters. "This is a victory of the principles of which our Indian people uphold," she said flashing the victory sign to her supporters.
India names first female president - Yahoo! News

LOL.......Now don't let this get all you Hillary lovers hopes up!

She's got her hands full though........with all the attacks that have been in India as of late combined with relations with Pakistan.

Have a good one!:s4:

women leaders worldwide!!!! thats what im talking about....no wars.....just gossip, sneering and an occasional cat fight.................i can deal with that, lol

India is a parlimentary government. The President is an (essentially) powerless figurehead. It is the Prime Minister who has the power.

India had a female Prime Minister, Indira Ghandi, decades ago. (Pakistan also had a female PM - Benazir Bhutto.)

PC :smokin: