Veteran CPI (M) leader Jyoti Basu on Friday hailed the selection of Rajasthan Governor Pratibha Patil as the UPA-Left candidate for the presidential election.
"This is a wonderful choice. We could not imagine that such a wonderful thing could happen," Basu said when reporters sought his reaction on the possibility of the country getting its first woman president.
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The nonagenarian leader was speaking to reporters after attending a meeting of the party's state secretariat in Kolkata.
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