Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former Vice President Hamid Ansari were present. “The history of modern India is closely associated with a few personalities. It is not because he was the first Prime Minister or even because, till today, he remains the longest-serving Prime Minister for 17 years. It is because he was truly the architect of the modern, democratic set-up in India,” Mr. Mukherjee said. And this is the time, with the launch of this book, to emphatically reject that attempt,” Mr. Ram said.

Source: The Hindu May 27, 2018 16:52 UTC