Sonia told me I couldn't be spared for President: Pranab

Veteran Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee's indispensability to the party nearly cost him the presidency. Until Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee's meeting with Congress president Sonia Gandhi on June 12, Mukherjee was clubbed along with vice president Hamid Ansari for the post of the president. In an interview to the Times Now, UPA's presidential candidate Mukherjee said Sonia had told him that he could not be spared as he still had much to do.

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