'How does Rahul Gandhi's office hope to run PMO': Pranab Mukherjee's sarcastic jibe revealed

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Rahul Gandhi's ordinance-tearing act in 2013 and said he has all the "arrogance" of his Gandhi-Nehru lineage without their political acumen and that this episode was the "final nail in the coffin" for the Congress in the Lok Sabha polls the subsequent year, a book on the late president says. "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". In another related incident Sharmistha Mukherjee says,"In the morning one day Rahul Gandhi came to meet him(Pranab Mukherjee)...as it turned out that Rahul was actually supposed to meet him in the evening...when I mentioned it to my father he sarcastically commented that, if Rahul's office doesn't differentiate between the am and pm, how do they hope to run the PMO one day".

Mukherjee served as India's finance minister and subsequently became minister for External Affairs, Defence, Finance and Commerce. He was India's 13th president (2012 to 2017). He died on August 31, 2020 at the age of 84.

Sharmistha says her father himself was against the ordinance and in principle agreed with Rahul. "But he was aghast at the manner in which Rahul acted. I was the one who first broke the news to him.

After a long time, I saw my father getting so angry! His face became red and he shouted, 'Who does he (Rahul) think he is? He is not a member of the Cabinet. Who is he to publicly trash a decision of Cabinet'," she writes. "The Prime Minister is abroad.