The Dramatic Decade The Indira Years

Pranab Mukherjee contested the 1980 Lok Sabha elections much against the wishes of Indira Gandhi who gave him a "vociferous dressing down" for an "interminable span of time" after his defeat but he made a dramatic entry into the Union Cabinet despite the loss.

Indira Gandhi was not aware of the emergency provision in the Constitution and acted on advice from Congress leader Siddharth Shankar Ray when she imposed the Emergency of 1975-77, President Pranab Mukherjee has said in his new book, released online today on his 79th birthday.

President Pranab Mukherjee has written books before but his latest - the first since he took office in 2012 - could be the best selling yet. The book, the first of three volumes, will be out in December.

Pranab Mukherjee contested the 1980 Lok Sabha elections much against the wishes of Indira Gandhi who gave him a "vociferous dressing down" for an "interminable span of time" after his defeat but he made a dramatic entry into the Union Cabinet despite the loss.

Indira Gandhi was not aware of the emergency provision in the Constitution and acted on advice from Congress leader Siddharth Shankar Ray when she imposed the Emergency of 1975-77, President Pranab Mukherjee has said in his new book, released online today on his 79th birthday.

President Pranab Mukherjee has written books before but his latest - the first since he took office in 2012 - could be the best selling yet. The book, the first of three volumes, will be out in December.