| This was an incident which happened when Dr. Kalam was President of india. Kalam sahab was very worried about a plague of pigeons in the Rashtrapati bhawan. He could not remove the pigeons from Rashtrapati bhawan. The whole Rashtrapati bhawan was full of pigeon poop, the people coming there could not walk on the pavements, or sit on the benches. It was costing a fortune to keep the building and pavements clean. One day a man came to the Rashtrapati bhawan and offered the President a proposition. "I can rid your beautiful Rashtrapati Bhawan of its plague of pigeons without any cost to you or government. But, you must promise not to ask me any questions. Or, you can pay me one Crore rupees to ask one question." The President considered the offer briefly and accepted the free proposition. The next day the man climbed to the terrace of Rashtrapati Bhawan, opened his suitcase, and released a blue pigeon. The blue pigeon circled in the air and flew up into the bright blue Delhi sky. All the pigeons in Delhi saw the blue pigeon and gathered up in the air behind the bird. The Delhi pigeons followed the blue pigeon as she flew eastwards out of the city. The next day the blue pigeon returned completely alone to the man on top of Rashtrapati Bhawan. The President was very impressed. He felt the man and the blue pigeon had performed a wonderful miraculous service to rid Delhi of the plague of pigeons. Even though the man with the pigeon had charged nothing, the President presented him with a cheque for 1 Crore rupees and told the man that, indeed, he did have a question to ask and even though they had agreed to no fee and the man had rid the Rashtrapati Bhawan of pigeons, he decided to pay the 1 Crore just to get to ask one question. The man accepted the money and told the President to ask his single question. The President asked, "Do you have a blue Politician ?" |