New Delhi: Today is the death anniversary of former President of the country Pranab Mukherjee, who died on August 31, 2020. He was a congress veteran and a close leader of the Gandhi family for a long time. It is believed that he was also well aware of the internal things of the Gandhi family that ruled India. Meanwhile, Mukherjee's book 'The Presidential Years' is also making headlines.
In this book, Pranab Mukherjee made a surprising claim about the country's first PM Jawaharlal Nehru. Mukherjee says in his book that Nepal wanted to be a part of India, but Nehru rejected King Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah's proposal to merge Nepal with India. Mukherjee also said in his book that if Indira Gandhi had been in his place, perhaps the offer would never have turned down.
In chapter 11 of the autobiography 'The Presidential Years' titled 'My Prime Ministers: Different Styles, Different Temperaments', the former President has written that King Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah had proposed to Jawaharlal Nehru that Nepal should be merged with India and made it a province, but then the then PM rejected this proposal. He further wrote that if Indira Gandhi was in Nehru's place, she would not have let go of this opportunity, as she did with Sikkim.
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