Girija's bad health can be a serious potential setback in the current situation as selecting an unanimous leader to lead the country will be a difficult task. While leaders are quarrelling among themselves for the top post, the regressive and along with extremists will have more room to play thus disturbing the smooth transition to a new state-system. It is indeed a sad new. Despite his wrongdoings in the past he had been successful develop himself as a national figure whom people could trust.