Pranab Mukherjee in his book compares Manmohan Singh and his successor Narendra Modi.
New Delhi:
Pranab Mukherjee’s son Abhijit Mukerjee, after a public fight with his sister Sharmistha over the former president’s latest book, insisted today that publishers should keep the book until he reads it, stating that his father “had he been alive, I would have read it before. final deployment.
Abhijit Mukherjee posted new tweets this morning, a day after his sister publicly rejected his call to the editors of Pranab Mukherjee’s memoir, “The Presidential Years,” to hold the book until he reviewed it.
“Contrary to the opinion of some, I am not against the publication of Memoirs of my father, but I have asked the publisher to allow me to review its content before the final release and I believe that my request is quite legitimate and is within my rights as his Son, “tweeted Abhijit Mukherjee, leader of Congress and former MP.
“If my father had been alive, he too would have passed it before the final release as he had in the past with his other volumes as well. Until then, and I repeat, until then, the publisher has been asked to stop publishing excerpts. motivated to win cheap publicity, “he wrote, responding to his sister.
The war of the brothers, both leaders of Congress, unfolded on Twitter yesterday, days after Rupa editors published excerpts in which Pranab Mukherjee blames Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the defeat of Congress in 2014.
The controversial excerpts have hit Congress at a time when its leaders openly question the leaders, especially the Gandhis, after successive electoral defeats. The book, the latest in a series, will be released next month.
Sharmistha Mukherjee yesterday accused her brother of seeking “cheap advertising” and prohibited him from creating “unnecessary obstacles” in publishing the book.
Abhijit Mukherjee had written that the publishers should “stop the publication of the memoirs as well as the motivated extracts” that float without their written consent.
Sharmistha Mukherjee replied within hours.
I, daughter of the author of the memoirs ‘The presidential years’, ask my brother @ABHIJIT_LS so as not to create unnecessary obstacles in the publication of the last book written by our father. Completed manuscript before getting sick 1/3
– Sharmistha Mukherjee (@Sharmistha_GK) December 15, 2020
The final draft contains my parents’ handwritten notes and comments that have been strictly adhered to. The opinions expressed by him are his and no one should try to prevent him from being posted for cheap advertising. That would be the greatest detriment to our deceased father 2/2
– Sharmistha Mukherjee (@Sharmistha_GK) December 15, 2020
By the way brother, the title of the book is ‘The Presidential Years’, not ‘The Presidential Memories’. 3/3
– Sharmistha Mukherjee (@Sharmistha_GK) December 15, 2020
In the final volume of “The Presidential Years,” Pranab Mukherjee, who died in August, addresses the sensitive issue of losing his prime ministerial post when Sonia Gandhi elected Manmohan Singh in 2004.
Mukherjee also compares Manmohan Singh and his successor Narendra Modi and talks about various controversial decisions during his tenure.
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