Pranab Mukherjee’s bonhomie with PM Modi revealed in memoir

New Delhi: Just six months into power as the Prime Minister in 2014, Narendra Modi got a surprise ‘birthday gift’ from then President, the late Pranab Mukherjee. On a presidential trip to Vietnam while speaking before the Indian diaspora, Mukherjee praised the Modi government for chartering new credible economic policies leading to growth in the GDP, containing inflation and positive signs like a larger foreign direct investment.This vote of