BENGALURU: Senior Congress Leaders have said it is premature to comment on the late former president’s new book. Pranab Mukherjee who presented a critical point of view for the party without reading it in its entirety.
Former Union Minister M Veerappa Moily, who was part of the UPA government headed by Manmohan Singh, noted that the book had not yet been published and that it was necessary to understand the context in which Mukherjee made the remarks.
“Unless you review the book and read it in its entirety, I do not want to comment”, the first Karnataka The Chief Minister told PTI.
The memoir, titled “The Presidential Years,” will be released globally in January 2021, publisher Rupa Books announced on Friday.
The former president presents a critical point of view for Congress, in which he was a top leader for more than five decades.
Mukherjee frankly refutes the opinion of party leaders, who believed that if he had become prime minister in 2004, the party could have avoided 2014. Lok Sabha beating.
“Although I do not subscribe to this view, I believe that the party leadership lost political focus after my promotion as president. While Sonia Gandhi was unable to handle party affairs, Dr. Singh’s prolonged absence from the House ended. to any personal contact with other deputies, “he wrote, according to excerpts from the book published by Rupa.
The book, according to the publisher, will chronicle his fascinating journey from growing up under the flickering of a lamp in a remote Bengal village to walking the wall of Rasthrapati Bhavan as the first citizen of India.
Former Union Minister Salman Khurshid also said he needs to read the book in its entirety before offering comment.
“…… because when someone with that much experience writes something, it is usually something that you need to read in its entirety to understand what the context is,” Khurshid told PTI.
“You can’t take a sentence here or there, that would be wrong.”
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