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According to Sharmistha, Pranab Mukherjee despised disruptions in Parliament’s functioning.
"In Pranab, My Father: A Daughter Remembers", Sharmistha Mukherjee says that her father also told her that "maybe politics wasn't Rahul's calling" and his "lack of charisma and political understanding is creating a problem" besides his "frequent disappearing acts".
The former President states that Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not discuss demonetisation with him in advance and that he learned about it via a TV broadcast.
He also doesn't subscribe to the theory that the Congress would not have been drubbed in the 2014 general elections had he been made the Prime Minister in 2004 but says the Congress "lost focus" after he was elevated to President in 2012.
Modi, who will take oath as the prime minister for the second time on Thursday, described the former president as a "statesman".
He said all the three commissioners are appointed by the executive and they are doing their job well.
Protests broke out in some parts of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday after videos of alleged movement and tampering of EVMs went viral on social media, a charge dismissed by the EC as "frivolous" and "unfounded".
He rued the fact that the Modi dispensation has not only scrapped five-year plans but also done away with the Planning Commission.
A top bureaucrat recounts his association with former Indian President Pranab Mukherjee who passed away on Monday.
In half a century, he worked with three generations of the Gandhi family from Indira, her sons Rajiv and Sanjay, daughter-in-law Sonia and grandson Rahul.
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