Pranab's son Abhijeet Mukherjee in a Twitter thread requested publisher, Rupa, to stop the publication of the memoir. Daughter, Sharmishtha Mukherjee, on the other hand, requested his brother not to create "unnecessary hurdles".
Pranab Mukherjee. File Pic
Former president Pranab Mukherjee’s memoir ‘The Presidential Years’ has again landed in a soup with his son and daughter, both Congress members, engaging in a Twitter spat over the publishing of the book.
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Pranab’s son Abhijeet Mukherjee in a Twitter thread requested publisher, Rupa, to stop the publication of the memoir as well as “motivated excerpts” without his written consent. Daughter, Sharmishtha Mukherjee, on the other hand, requested his brother not to create “unnecessary hurdles”.
“Since my father is no more , I being his son want to go through the contents of the final copy of the book before its publication as I believe , had my father been alive today , he too would have done the same,” tweeted Abhijeet.
@kapish_mehra @Rupa_Books
— Abhijit Mukherjee (@ABHIJIT_LS) December 15, 2020
I , the Son of the author of the Memoir " The Presidential Memoirs " request you to kindly stop the publication of the memoir as well as motivated excerpts which is already floating in certain media platforms without my written consent .1/3
Responding to her brother’s tweet, Sharmishtha posted, “The final draft contains my dads’ 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.”
I, daughter of the author of the memoir ‘The Presidential Years’, request my brother @ABHIJIT_LS not to create any unnecessary hurdles in publication of the last book written by our father. He completed the manuscript before he fell sick 1/3
— Sharmistha Mukherjee (@Sharmistha_GK) December 15, 2020
She also corrected her brother, saying that the book is called ‘The Presidential Years’ and not ‘The Presidential memoirs’.
The memoir had recently been in news for its comments on former prime minister Manmohan Singh and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It stated that Singh was preoccupied with saving his coalition during his second stint while Modi was "autocratic" in his first term as Prime Minister.
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