A day after former President Pranab Mukherjee delivered his speech at the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) he... Read More

CHENNAI: A day after former President Pranab Mukherjee delivered his speech at the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ( RSS ) headquarters in Nagpur, senior Congress leader and former Union finance minister P Chidambaram on Friday appreciated the former for his frank views.

In a series of tweets in Tamil, Chidambaram thanked Mukherjee for highlighting the noble principles of the Congress party. He thanked Mukherjee for “boldly pointing out the negatives in the policy pursued by the RSS.”

Ahead of Mukherjee’s visit, several Congress leaders had expressed concern about it. However, after Mukherjee highlighted (in his address) the need to have religious tolerance, he came in for much praise.

Mukherjee reminded the RSS of India's pluralism, tolerance, secularism and inclusive as articles of faith.

