Sonia Gandhi paid heed to her inner voice and did a Gandhi. She preferred to remain a chanakya, a strategist rather than lead the country.

While her fans said, that was a master stroke, her inexperience came to the fore. She appeared unsure on what she wanted to do.

A headline in one of the UK based dailies read, Sonia bows out in tears. While that headline was purely sensational with nothing in it to prove that, it could very well have been true.

However it remains, though she did not win a clear mandate she was not rejected by the voters as well. That leaves her with all the room to head the government.

But the three day drama had the rumour mill going. Here are a few samples

1) Her children especially Rahul prevailed over her and told her to stay away from a post that had fatally consumed his father and grandma.

2) Kalam had quoted a few articles in the constitution, which could have gone against her. These mainly pertained to 'adherence to a foreign nation'.

3) Sonia felt that as the mandate was not for the congress and their allies, but only against the NDA, she did not have the legitimacy to rule

4) The armed forces had expressed their dissent

5) The malicious campaign against her by the BJP!

Another point that could have influenced her, was market sentiments. The day she was touted to be PM, the stock market lost 789 points, an all time high. And when Manmohan was proposed the markets actually gained 120 points.

Just a line to sympathise with her, Maybe we should have given her a bit more time and an opportunity.