India elected the first woman president

(CBS/AP) Pratibha Patil has won the race to become India's president, becoming Saturday the first woman to hold the post in a symbolic victory for the hundreds of millions of Indian women who contend with widespread discrimination.

While India has had several women in positions of power — most notably Indira Gandhi, who was elected to the more powerful position of prime minister in 1966, and her daughter-in-law, Sonia Gandhi, who currently ######### the Congress party — many women still face rampant discrimination.

Patil, the 72-year-old candidate of the governing Congress party and its political allies, defeated the candidate of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, the incumbent Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, in the vote by national lawmakers and state legislators, the election commission announced Saturday.

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mohamed elgadi
P.S. this is another victory against right-wing Indian politicians, Muslims and Hindu

The big democracy is getting really big. Congratulation

الاخ د. محمد القاضي لك التحية

الهند دائمأ ما تقدم لنا نماذج متقدمة فيما يخص مسائل الديمقراطية و بناء
الدولة الحديثة علي اسس المساواة و مصالحة الذات ..
فقد قدمت من قبل احد الذين ينتمون الي طبقة المنبوذين
ادني الطبقات الاجتماعية في الهند ليكون رئيسأ ..
و قدمت احد المسلمين (ابو القنبلة النووية الهندية) ليكون رئيسأ في دولة
تعتبر دولة الهندوس في العالم ..

التجربة الهنديةفي هذه الناحية نحن في السودان اكثر حوجة لها ..