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PM Modi achieved prime ministership; Manmohan was offered, claims Pranab Mukherjee s memoire
Mukherjee made these comments in his memoir The Presidential Years, 2012-2017 which he wrote before his death last year.
The book was released on Tuesday.
NEW DELHI: Former President Pranab Mukherjee has claimed in his memoir - The Presidential Years, 2012-2017 – that while Narendra Modi achieved the prime ministership, Congress stalwart Manmohan Singh was offered the same by the party and the latter didn t earn it.
The late former President wrote this in his memoir while making a comparison of the two PMs with whom he had worked in the past. Mukherjee made these comments in his memoir The Presidential Years, 2012-2017 which he wrote before his death last year. The book was released on Tuesday.
Updated Jan 06, 2021 | 06:48 IST
PM Modi Narendra Modi must listen to the dissenting voices and speak more often in Parlaiment, felt former president Pranab Mukherjee. Late Pranab Mukherjee | Photo Credit: IANS
New Delhi: Late former president Pranab Mukherjee, in his memoir, The Presidential Years 2012-2017, has said that Congress failed to recognise the end of its charismatic leadership and thus lost the Lok Sabha Elections 2014. I feel the party failed to recognise the end of its charismatic leadership. Tall leaders like Pandit Nehru ensured that India, unlike Pakistan, survived and developed into a strong and stable nation. Sadly, such extraordinary leaders are not there anymore, reducing the establishment to a government of averages, he wrote in his memoir.