PTI
Mangalore / Mysore, Apr 9: "Fantastic, fantastic, fantastic" - this was how President A P J Abdul Kalam reacted on Sunday when asked if he wanted Infosys' chief mentor and software industry icon N R Narayana Murthy to succeed him.
Asked again at an interactive session at the Infosys campus here about Murthy succeeding him, he replied, "I will say fantastic."
Though Murthy's name has been floated for the post in some quarters, he has sought to steer clear of such talk.
"I am not the person to comment on those things," Murthy said last month when asked if he was open to the idea of being a candidate in the presidential elections.
"This is all hypothetical. So we should not spend time on hypothetical issues...You have to ask the people who have said so (that he would make a good president)," he had said.