{"id":5610,"date":"2021-07-04T08:40:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T03:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=5610"},"modified":"2021-07-04T08:40:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T03:10:02","slug":"the-presidential-years-pranab-mukherjee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/04\/the-presidential-years-pranab-mukherjee\/","title":{"rendered":"The Presidential Years, Pranab Mukherjee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pranab Mukherjee wrote his memoir in a book title: The Presidential Years. I would say it is his diary entry during his presidential years. He has written on all aspects during his tenure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was surprised knowing that the note-ban announced by Modi was not known to him.  Also, the fact that note ban, GST was part of the previous government&#8217;s policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was not aware of our country&#8217;s ties and bilateral relationship and aids for many African countries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pranab Mukherjee also talks about the controversy during Obama&#8217;s visit as chief guest during India&#8217;s 66th republic day celebration. Mukherjee does not hide his displeasure with Modi&#8217;s surprising visit to Pakistan to greet the Prime Minister on his birthday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also brings another important point of the nation above personal relationship dismisses Modi&#8217;s marketing about stronger India-Japan relationship mentioning that the country has always been working together. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pranab Mukherjee was awarded many prizes and doctoral degrees at various ceremonies and events in Bangladesh. I was not aware of his bonding with Seikh Hasina and his family. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pranab Mukherjee wrote his memoir in a book title: The Presidential Years. I would say it is his diary entry during his presidential years. He has written on all aspects during his tenure. I was surprised knowing that the note-ban announced by Modi was not known to him. Also, the fact that note ban, GST &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/04\/the-presidential-years-pranab-mukherjee\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Presidential Years, Pranab Mukherjee&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[1158],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5611,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions\/5611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}