Updated On: 04 April, 2011 10:46 AM IST | | IANS
Finance Minister and Congress stalwart Pranab Mukherjee Sunday congratulated Team India for their magnificent win in the World Cup, noting it was an "accidental coincidence" that he was finance minister both the times India won the coveted trophy.
Finance Minister and Congress stalwart Pranab Mukherjee Sunday congratulated Team India for their magnificent win in the World Cup, noting it was an "accidental coincidence" that he was finance minister both the times India won the coveted trophy.
"I am not a good player. But as any other Indian I am proud of Team India for their brilliant win. I congratulate them. I feel specially proud about Team India's win because it is a accidental coincidence that during 1983 when Kapil Dev won the World Cup, I was the finance minister of the country then and now when again India has won the Cup, I am the finance minister of the country. It is an accidental coincidence," said Mukherjee while releasing the party manifesto for the April-May West Bengal assembly elections at the state Congress headquarters.