NEW DELHI: Sonia Gandhi’s memoir recounts Pranab Mukherjee hinting in 2010 that he wanted a change at the top. The account also rebuts claims that she wielded unofficial power over Manmohan Singh’s UPA government.
Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee hinted at his long-held desire to become prime minister during a conversation with then Congress president Sonia Gandhi in 2010, according to her memoir. She was surprised by Mukherjee that it might be time for “a change at the top.”
In the memoir, Gandhi also rejects allegations that she was the “back-seat driver” of the United Progressive Alliance government. She says Manmohan Singh was the prime minister and that, as Congress president, she could offer opinions or suggestions and express differences, but it was her duty to defer to him.
“Further, I was determined not to be, under any circumstances, the cause of a misunderstanding that could give our opponents occasion to rejoice and weaken our government,” she says in the 526-page book, which was released on Tuesday.
The book begins with an inscription from the Rig Veda: “Move together, speak together, let your minds be in concord. United be your purpose, harmonious be your heart, collected be your thoughts, so that you dwell in togetherness, in wholeness.”
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