Has Pranab Mukherjee given up residual hopes of being nominated for the Presidential election? Straws in the wind appear to suggest that that may well be the case – perhaps because he has been given an inkling of the range of political opposition to his candidature. In Kolkata on Saturday, Mukherjee himself gave voice to his quasi-philosophical musings when he said that no one could become President merely on the strength of one’s own wish.