Pranab Says Sonia told me that I couldn't be spared for President

NEW DELHI: indispensable veteran Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee to the game almost cost him the presidency. Until the meeting Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee, the Congress President Sonia Gandhi on June 12, Mukherjee was beaten along with Vice President Hamid Ansari, for the office of president. In an interview with Times Now, Mukherjee candidate for president of UPA, Sonia said had told him he could not ignore what we still have much to do.

In describing how they emerged as a leading presidential candidate, Mukherjee said Sonia started the discussion. "First she (Sonia) started talking to the friendly matches, which are part of the government ... and discussed in general terms, without mentioning any names. She did not release any names, generally discussed," said Mukherjee .

"Then he discussed with the supporting partners. Then she began to discuss with key congressional leaders and the assumption that the names were thrown into it," he said. Until then, Mukherjee said he was not in the picture. Sonia Mukherjee said details of his meeting on 12 June, with Mamata. "That night she (Sonia) called me and told me exactly what happened. Since then, the next day, I had detailed discussions with her," said Mukherjee. But Mukherjee did not think it necessary. "In the law of nature, the vacuum is always filled. People are not important, the system is important."

Speaking of coalitions, Mukherjee said that coalitions are necessary but would be wrong to predict that the people of India will make coalition governments a necessity. "My assessment is that it is that indigenous peoples are calling for a coalition. The electorate is not finding that there is a strong party that should be supported in all states, particularly in key states ...

"Once the political parties, the Indian National Congress or some other political parties, making the state, then they have this advantage. However, coalitions necessary because a country like India can not continue elections often. Remember how people began to speak ... Since 1984, a decisive majority has become a 1989 election was a mandate of fracture, in 1991, Congress has 220 seats, later with the Punjab, 239 or 238 seats, but not an absolute majority from 1996 to 2009 - no absolute majority, but ... in 2009 I said that Congress could do better. When everyone because we canceled from 2004 and 2009, the main political support from Congress, the left, separated from us. therefore, was very natural for people to believe that Congress would be lost.

"What I'm talking about is that Indian democracy has the flexibility to adapt and absorb difficult situations." "