Pranab Mukherjee is great Person

New Delhi, July 24: As we knew that, 13 the president Pranab Mukherjee has been stepped down from President Post tomorrow from this aspect many of the people have been praised the Pranab here on Sunday.

Old friends recalled with fondness the many anecdotes that marked his long career in politics.

"Even Mrs. Gandhi would say, 'No matter how hard one tries, they can never get a word out of Pranab. All they will see is the smoke coming out of his pipe.'," laughed journalist and long-time friend Jayanta Ghoshal, who has known Mukherjee since 1985.

Ghoshal said to the media that, "He never smoked cigarettes, only the pipe. After he was asked to quit smoking for health issues, he wouldn't smoke but would keep the pipe in his mouth, without any nicotine, and chew the stem of pipe, just to get the feel of it."

The journalist first met Mukherjee in 1985, at the latter's south Calcutta residence in Southern Avenue, as a junior reporter in the Bengali daily Bartaman. Young and enthusiastic, Ghoshal would accompany the politician on each of his trips to different districts in West Bengal, gaining political knowledge on the way.