P. Chidambaram was the only Congress leader to attend Pranab Mukherjee s daughter s book launch days after Sharmistha Mukherjee s remarks on the party and Rahul Gandhi.
"What right does he have to humiliate the PM like this?" he noted in his diary. "He has all the arrogance of his Gandhi-Nehru lineage without their political acumen," he added and observed, "Maybe politics wasn't his (Rahul's) calling."
In his book, Pranab Mukherjee wrote: “. stories have been circulated that I aspired to be the interim PM . And that this created misgivings in Rajiv Gandhi’s mind. These stories are completely false and spiteful”
Pranab Mukherjee mentioned how Rahul's strong opposition to a government ordinance in 2013, where he publicly criticised it, hurt the Congress in the 2014 elections.