'PM Modi would always touch Baba's feet, their relationship goes back many years': Pranab Mukherjee's daughter

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Former President Pranab Mukherjee's daughter Sharmishtha on Wednesday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi always touched her father's feet even as he followed a different ideology..

Pranab Mukherjee, a Congress veteran, was the President of India when Modi was elected Prime Minister in 2014...

She said the relationship between the President and the Prime Minister was that way because of her father's belief that he had a constitutional role to play and also constitutional limitation not to interfere in the governance...

But if you need help in any constitutional matter, I will support you fully.". Pranab Mukherjee served as President till 2017, three years after Modi took over as Prime Minister...

She said her father told a journalist that he did not have any expectations from Sonia Gandhi to make him the Prime Minister...

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