I Leave with a Prayer in My Heart: President Pranab Bids Farewell

Pranab Mukherjee said that he was demitting office “with a tinge of sadness and a rainbow of memories”.

President Pranab Mukherjee bids farewell to parliamentarians. 

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Bidding an emotional farewell to parliamentarians, outgoing President Pranab Mukherjee noted that he was demitting office “with a tinge of sadness and a rainbow of memories.”

Mukherjee cautioned the government against using the ordinance route to bring in a law, saying it should be used only in a compelling situation and not taken recourse to in monetary matters.

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At a farewell function in Parliament, he also told the opposition not to disrupt proceedings in the two Houses as it took away from it the opportunity to raise people’s concerns.

The hour-long function was attended by Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former prime ministers Manmohan Singh and H D Deve Gowda, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, Union ministers, besides political leaders and MPs.

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