‘Within my rights as son,’ tweets Abhijit as spat with sister over Pranab Mukherjee’s memoir continues

The spat between former President Pranab Mukherjee’s son and daughter over publishing his memoir continues, with former Congress MP Abhijit Mukherjee asserting on Wednesday that he had a official proper as a son to undergo the manuscript earlier than the ultimate roll-out.

“Contrary to the opinion of some, I am not against the publishing of my father’s Memoir but I have requested D publisher to allow me to go through its contents before final roll out & I believe my request is quite legitimate & within my rights as his son,” Mr. Mukherjee mentioned in his newest tweet.

“Had my father been alive, he too would have gone through it before the final roll out as he had done in the past too for his other volumes. Till then, & I repeat, till then, the publisher has been requested to stop publishing motivated excerpts to gain cheap publicity,” he added in one other tweet.

The former Lok Sabha member’s tweet was a retort to his sister Sharmistha’s that the manuscript of the ultimate quantity of The Presidential Years was cleared by her father.

“The final draft contains my dad’s hand written notes & comments that have been strictly adhered to. The views expressed by him are his own & no one should try to stop it from being published for any cheap publicity. That would be the greatest disservice to our departed father,” Ms. Mukherjee tweeted on Tuesday, tagging her brother and asking him to not create hurdles.

She had tweeted after her brother had raised objections to the publication of the ultimate quantity of the memoir with out being vetted by him.

On December 11, the publishers, Rupa, launched an excerpt of the ultimate quantity, wherein the late President talks in regards to the Congress shedding focus after his elevation as the nation’s President, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi unable to deal with the get together and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh being busy saving the federal government.

The excerpt additionally has a portion wherein he describes Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s functioning as “autocratic” in his first time period.

Mr. Mukherjee had additionally revealed what number of within the Congress believed that the 2014 outcomes would have been completely different had he turn into the Prime Minister in 2004.

“Some members of the Congress have theorised that, had I become the PM in 2004, the party might have averted the 2014 Lok Sabha drubbing. Though I don’t subscribe to this view, I do believe that the party’s leadership lost political focus after my elevation as president. While Sonia Gandhi was unable to handle the affairs of the party, Dr. Singh’s prolonged absence from the House put an end to any personal contact with other MPs”, learn one excerpt.

“I believe that the moral authority to govern vests with the PM. The overall state of the nation is reflective of the functioning of the PM and his administration. While Dr. Singh was preoccupied with saving the coalition, which took a toll on governance, Modi seemed to have employed a rather autocratic style of governance during his first term, as seen by the bitter relationship among the government, the legislature and the judiciary. Only time will tell if there is a better understanding on such matters in the second term of this government,” the previous President had said.