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| Video Discription | (18 Jul 2007) New Delhi, 21 June 2007 1. Wide of Presidential palace 2. Mid of Pratibha Patil, Presidential candidate of the governing coalition 3. Wide of Patil addressing reporters 4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Pratibha Patil , Presidential candidate of the governing coalition: "As I am contesting the Presidential election, I have extended my grateful thanks to the President for his cooperation and guidance. And I wished him good health and extended my good wishes." Calcutta, 13 July 2007 5. Various of Patil with Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, chief minister of West Bengal state, whose party is supporting her New Delhi, 17 July 2007 6. SOUNDBITE ( English ): Shubha Singh, columnist: "Mrs Pratibha Patil is chosen because she is a woman. And it was a last minute decision. But then in earlier elections also we have seen that it is not always the names that come up in the beginning that finally become the official candidates. But all this doesn't distract from the fact that for the first time we are likely to have a woman as a head of state." FILE: New Delhi, June 2004 7. Various of opposition Presidential candidate and currently Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat (in white clothes and black jacket) walking with outgoing President APJ Abdul Kalam (wearing black suit) and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (wearing pale blue turban), entering parliament 8. Mid of Singh with Shekhawat New Delhi, 10 July 2007 9. Close-up of screen showing anti-Patil website 10. Wide of news conference launching website carrying articles against Patil 11. Various of newspaper articles against Patil's candidature 12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Arun Jaitley, Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) the main opposition party: "It is a morally proper and correct campaign which is being carried out. And what is morally correct has to be politically correct." Calcutta , 13 July 2007 13. Various of Patil with her supporters New Delhi , 17 July 2007 14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Seema Mustafa , Asian Age newspaper: "They bring out this lady from the back of beyond. Her own party, which is the Congress party, didn't know who she was. People were all asking each other who she was. And then they finally said 'well look, here, we have got a woman as a president' regardless of the qualifications, regardless of whether she has done anything for the woman cause. Regardless of the fact that she is what I think an Indian woman should not be, where she covers her head, she makes regressive statements about justifying the covering of head, of her head, where she wears these long clothes, where she does everything which is not the progressive Indian woman. And then they are telling us that look, we have got a woman president for you." FILE: New Delhi, January 2006 14. Various of President Kalam distributing gifts to children, signing autographs STORYLINE Pratibha Patil has won the race to become Indian 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 heads 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 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/24adbdaeacbe189a5900bcd54ec8e7fb |
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