SHARMISTHA TALKS ABOUT SPECIAL BOND BETWEEN PRANAB, MODI

Sharmistha, daughter of former President Pranab Mukherjee, said her father liked to share his views “firmly and strongly” in party forum and did not like to speak on party issues in public.

- RAHUL CHHABRA

Talking about her book ‘In Pranab, My Father: A Daughter Remembers’, she talked about the bond that her father enjoyed with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress party colleagues like Indira Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul and another parliamentarian

In the book she says that Mukherjee was aware that he was qualified for the top post but also realised that Sonia Gandhi would never make him the PM but give the priority to Dr. Manmohan Singh. At the same time, Mukherjee did not have any bitterness against Sonia Gandhi or Manmohan for not making him the prime minister, she said.