Scholar par excellence, towering statesman who always blessed me: PM Modi pays tribute to Pranab Mukherjee
Expressing grief over former president Pranab Mukherjee's demise, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday described him as a scholar par excellence and a towering statesman who was admired across the political spectrum.
The prime minister recalled that Mukherjee, as the then President when he became prime minister for the first time, always supported and guided him. Photo from Twitter of PM.