NEW DELHI: Describing Indira Gandhi as the “most acceptable” prime minister of a democratic country even today, President Pranab Mukherjee recalled her decisiveness while giving a subtle message to the Congress leadership.
Mukherjee, in a veiled message to the party leadership to speed up decision-making in organisational matters, recalled the former prime minister’s decisive style of functioning that helped her party score comeback victories in state polls a couple of months after the second Congress split of 1978.
With Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi seated on the dais, flanked by Vice President Hamid Ansari, former prime minister Manmohan Singh and senior Congress leader Anand Sharma, Mukherjee paid rich tributes to Indira Gandhi on the occasion of the release of a commemorative centennial volume on her life and works.
He also received the first copy of ‘India’s Indira – A Centennial Tribute’ unveiled by Ansari. The Congress is celebrating the centenary birth anniversary of Indira Gandhi. (AGENCIES)
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