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Bengali politician, this introduction might not have pleased the late Pranab Mukherjee much. So he was quite indifferent to his own state of West Bengal. In 1980, Indira Gandhi returned to power. Pranab Babu’s political life also reached an extreme stage. How far this would have been if Sanjay Gandhi had survived is an important question in Indian politics. From Siddhartha Shankar Roy to Ashok Sen, Devi Prasad Chattopadhyay or Pranab Babu, Indira’s son Sanjay Gandhi was not very happy with these Bengali politicians. What was the reason why Sanjay was unhappy with these Bengali politicians?
Although Indira realized at the beginning that the objective of Siddhartha Shankar was towards the Prime Minister’s chair, she could not accept it. Sanjay had practically created a psychological pressure on Indira so that she took care of this problem. But why didn’t Sanjay have a very positive attitude towards Pranab Babu? Pranab’s steadfast intellect couldn’t tolerate the restless politician Sanjay? Like Siddhartha Sankara, Pranab would give Indira “bad” advice by presenting herself as her mother’s heir, saying good and bad things about the insolent nature of the child, poisoning her mother’s mind. Was that what Sanjay feared? Although Sanjay is not a mature politician, his mother Indira, from the depths of her own political sense, saw the wisdom, loyalty and ambition of Pranab Babu; everything seemed to be in the box. For that reason, Pranabbabu’s loyalty to the cornered Indira during the Morarji Desai government was more important than Sanjay’s objections.
Could Pranab Mukherjee surpass his former rival Siddhartha Shankar Roy in political ambitions? Or did Siddhartha Shankar himself give that advice to the newly orphan Rajiv Gandhi after the tragic murder of Indira Gandhi so as not to overwhelm him? Rajiv relied on Siddhartha Shankar from the Emergency period to break the post-war situation from Sanjay Gandhi’s Frankenstein Punjab Journal Singh Vindranewala. Bangsilal was none other than anyone to create panic during the state of emergency. However, why did Rajiv not trust Bangsilal but Bangatanay Siddhartha Shankar to punish Vindranewala? And this Siddhartha Shankar, when he is getting used to seeing the chair of the Prime Minister of India with this mentality of not eating or letting anyone eat, Siddhartha Shankar whispered in Rajiv’s ear so that no other Bengali pranabbabu could sit on the Ms. Gandhi’s abandoned chair under any circumstances?
In the last stage of Indira’s life, did your party try to provoke a revolt in Congress? If not, why did Indira start a cold war with the then president Zail Singh? The role of Pranab Mukherjee in the question of placing Rajiv in the empty throne of Indira immediately after the tragic death of Indira also revealed the smallest indication of that repressed rebellion within the Congress party? If not, why didn’t Rajiv include her mother’s special confidant, Pranab, in her cabinet? The finance minister was handed over to the inexperienced Bishwanath Pratap Singh, who later became an anti-Rajiv on the Bofors issue.
Pranab Babu formed a party called the Progressive Congress without obtaining the status he deserved from Rajiv. However, this Pranab Babu of Mamata Banerjee, who won Indira Gandhi’s assassination campaign because of his intense communist hatred, of Hughli’s Indumati Bhattacharya, took care of practically everything during his first visit to Delhi. At that time, Mamata was considered a man from Pranab Shibir. And since then Somen Mitra was a member of ABA Ganikhan Chowdhury Shibir.
Rajiv Gandhi, however, did not include his mother’s other confidant, Ganikhan, in his cabinet. Gani Khan became quite popular in Bengal at that time due to his rhetorical development as Minister of Railways in Indira’s last cabinet. The task of gaining this popularity was never possible for Pranab Babu. A big reason not to be, of course, was his cowardly and very ruthless treatment of fellow soldiers, harassing them from time to time with non-parliamentary rhetoric.
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