Subjected To Abuse With Sexual Connotation: Pranab Mukherjee's Daughter On Congress Worker (Photo on X Sharmistha Mukherjee @Sharmistha_GK)

Former President Pranab Mukherjee’s daughter and author Sharmistha Mukherjee today (Friday) tweeted a series of abusive tweets she received allegedly from a Congress supporter. She tagged the X handles of Delhi police and demanded action. She alleged that the former Indian President and her have been “subjected to vilest of abuse with a sexual connotation.” She also shared the screen shorts of the user”s tweets whom she identifies as a “Congress supporter”.

Taking to X, Sharmistha Mukherjee wrote that she want to bring to the notice of the Delhi Police a series of tweets by Naveen KR Shashi. “I would like to bring to the notice of @DelhiPolice a series of tweets by @Naveen_Kr_Shahi, a supporter of @INCIndia through which me and my father, former President of India @CitiznMukherjee have been subjected to vilest of abuse with a sexual connotation,” she wrote.

I would like 2 bring 2 notice of ⁦@DelhiPolice⁩ a series of tweets by ⁦@Naveen_Kr_Shahi⁩ a supporter of ⁦@INCIndia⁩ thru which me & my father, former President of India ⁦@CitiznMukherjee⁩ have been subjected to vilest of abuse with sexual connotation. pic.twitter.com/uZlyIsKQXN

— Sharmistha Mukherjee (@Sharmistha_GK) February 9, 2024

Sharmishtha had in December 2023 stated that her father Pranab former president Pranab Mukherjee used to doubt Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s leadership abilities. She had in her book In Pranab, My Father: A Daughter Remembers wrote that her father questioned the Congress leader’s ability to lead the party. She in her book described Rahul Gandhi as a politician who is “yet to mature,” citing her father.

She also wrote that Pranab Mukherjee saw Rahul Gandhi as very courteous and full of questions and yet not mature politically. “He (Pranab Mukherjee) has not written much about Rahul Gandhi. During one of these visits on 25 March 2013, Pranab noted, ‘Rahul Gandhi is very courteous and has an interest in a diverse range of subjects but moves very quickly from one subject to another. I don’t know how much he listened and absorbed, he (Rahul Gandhi) is yet to be mature politically, Sharmishtha wrote.