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“The proposal to introduce GST was first mooted by P. Chidambaram in his budget speech of 2006”
― Pranab Mukherjee, The Coalition Years

“The Unfinished Memoirs,”
― Pranab Mukherjee, The Dramatic Decade : The Indira Gandhi Years

“She has a unique quality which I have myself commented upon on several occasions. She has built her own career—fearlessly and aggressively—and what she is today is the outcome of her own struggle, labour and hard work. She has an aura about her which is difficult to explain but impossible to ignore.”
― Pranab Mukherjee, The Coalition Years

“retelling of India’s political history as I have experienced it. The Dramatic Decade is the first of a trilogy; this book covers the period between 1969 and 1980. It begins with my entry into public life as a member of the Rajya Sabha and covers three epochal events—the war that led to the liberation”
― Pranab Mukherjee, The Dramatic Decade : The Indira Gandhi Years

“Justice M.C. Jain’s interim report29 suggested that the DMK and its leadership had been involved in encouraging Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), and his followers.”
― Pranab Mukherjee, The Coalition Years

“In the long history of the Congress, a really serious contest for presidency was first fought between Subhas Chandra Bose and Pattabhi Sitaramayya in 1939.”
― Pranab Mukherjee, The Coalition Years

“government,”
― Pranab Mukherjee, The Turbulent Years: 1980–1996

“As all the parties had given a guarantee that they would accept [the] Radcliffe award without any question, they had to keep quiet and accept whatever had been decreed by Radcliffe in what was by far the strangest, most illogical and arbitrarily drawn boundary line in history between two countries.11”
― Pranab Mukherje, The Dramatic Decade : The Indira Gandhi Years

“where freedom is menaced, or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral’. Indira”
― Pranab Mukherjee, The Dramatic Decade : The Indira Gandhi Years

“parties had given a guarantee that they would accept [the] Radcliffe award without any question, they had to keep quiet and accept whatever had been decreed by Radcliffe in what was by far the strangest, most illogical and arbitrarily drawn boundary line in history between two countries.11”
― Pranab Mukherjee, The Dramatic Decade : The Indira Gandhi Years

“P. Chidambaram, the then Home Minister, had strong reservations about this project. He was opposed to the idea of the UIDAI”
― Pranab Mukherjee, The Coalition Years

“Don’t behave in a funny manner. We must have Calcutta in India.”
― Pranab Mukherje, The Dramatic Decade : The Indira Gandhi Years

“my career in public life, I have had the rare privilege of being a participant in many of the defining moments of our country’s democratic history. Our nation and its people have, and continue to, offer me an abundance of love, faith and affection in a measure that I find”
― Pranab Mukherjee, The Dramatic Decade : The Indira Gandhi Years

“In the first ever free general elections in Pakistan, the Awami League of East Pakistan, led by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, won a clear majority in the Pakistan National Assembly (PNA). With this, the history of the subcontinent reached a turning point in 1971.”
― Pranab Mukherjee, The Dramatic Decade : The Indira Gandhi Years

“It is when you stand by a person in his or her hour of crisis that you reveal your own humanity.”
― Pranab Mukherje, The Dramatic Decade : The Indira Gandhi Years