No forgery, have long & short signatures
President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday said his signature on the letter resigning from Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) was different from the one he generally affixed on formal documents but it was no forgery as alleged by defeated candidate Purno Sangma. Mukherjee's response came in an affidavit responding to Sangma's petition seeking quashing of his election as president on the ground that he had held an office of profit while filing nomination papers as his resignation from the ISI chairman's post was invalid given the "forgery" in signature.