‘He was so angry’: Pranab Mukherjee's daughter recounts Rahul Gandhi's 2013 ‘ordinance-tearing’ move
Rahul Gandhi's move of tearing an Ordinance copy in the Parliament in 2013, daughter Sharmishtha said at the launch of her book "Pranab My Father: A Daughter Remembers" on Monday. “I was the one to break the news (about tearing of the ordinance) to him. He (Pranab Mukherjee) was so angry," Sharmishtha Mukherjee said.
Congress review meeting: INC says ‘disappointing, unexpected’ election results "Anyone would agree that the trashing of the ordinance by Rahul Gandhi was extremely arrogant and politically immature. Principally my father was also against the ordinance, but he said ‘Who is Rahul Gandhi to do that? He was not even part of the Cabinet', the late president's daughter added. In 2013, Rahul Gandhi lashed out at an ordinance passed by his own government that gave convicted lawmakers a three-month reprieve to retain their seats.
‘Manmohan Singh was there…’: Gautam Gambhir on Rahul Gandhi's ‘Panauti’ remark The Congress MP had dubbed the ordinance “complete nonsense" and recommended it should be “torn apart" after the UPA government’s cabinet approved the executive order to protect leaders from disqualification. Further, Sharmishtha Mukherjee revealed that her father would say that his stint with former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was the "golden period" of his political life. ‘Cannot differentiate between the am and pm’, Pranab's take on Rahul Gandhi My father would say that the Indira Gandhi period was the golden period of his political life.
Indiraji kept an eye on Baba. If there was one person with whom my father's loyalty lay, it was Indira Gandhi and nobody else," Sharmishtha said. Recalling how he rose through the ranks in Indira Gandhi's cabinet, she said it didn't happen in a day and underlined that the
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