None to hoist the flag

Sir,

Kerala Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan’s congratulation of the space scientists of the country for their successful achievement in launching India’s first unmanned spacecraft to moon, Chandrayaan-I is rather ludicrous as he is the first politician in India who called the foremost brain of such projects Dr APJ Abdul Kalam as a mere ‘fire work ‘ man. His observation about the project that the scientists will hoist national flag in the moon is incongruous as the scientists have no immediate plan to hoist flag there. The spacecraft will only circulate in moon’s orbit and there is none in it to land on moon to hoist the flag.

K A Solaman