Is age the problem?

Amit's post at the India Uncut links to Devangshu Datta's Business Standard column. Datta's contention is that

it’s an absurdity of the political system that there is no mandatory retirement age.

Amit doesn't agree, and I think rightly so. Amit says:

[T]he problem isn't that our leading politicians are too old. The problem is that we pick the wrong guys.

I had a post on this issue here.