Pranab Mukerjee Bids Goodbye: Highlights from Pranab Mukherji’s Farewel Speech!!!
JULY 25: Pranab Mukherjee leaves the highest office authority Of the country as his successor Ram Nath Kovind takes over. Full of proud, nostalgia and optimism, he delivered his last words as a President of India!
Let’s have a look at the Highlights from his Farewell Speech!!
- Hamid Ansari begins farewell addressHamid Ansari, who served as vice-president for five years, calls the President of India a “consummate diplomat” in his farewell address, as he recounts a long and distinguished career.
- Pranab spoke of ‘Argumentative Indian, not Intolerant Indian’Vice-president Hamid Ansari recounts the time spent in the last five years under the Pranab Mukherjee presidency. “Our traditions have encouraged argumentative Indian, not the intolerant Indian,” Ansari recounts Pranab Mukherjee as telling him.
President Pranab Mukherjee begins address
After Speaker Sumitra Mahajan and Vice-President Hamid Ansari, Pranab Mukherjee takes his position on the dais and begins his farewell address.
Pranab Mukherjee gets nostalgic, recalls first time in Parliament
“When I first entered the hallowed Parliament, I was 34-years-old. I represented one of the six seats from Rajya Sabha. I attended my first session in July 1969,” says Pranab Mukherjee, after requesting attending MPs to allow him the privilege of becoming nostalgic
Pranab Mukherjee pays tributes to Indira Gandhi
President Pranab Mukherjee calls former prime minister Indira Gandhi the biggest influence on his career, saying her “steely determination and clarity of thought” has always inspired him. “She taught me self-correction is always better than self-justification,” Mukherjee said.
