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Equations with PM and Sonia are good: Pranab

Says at 75, he has overstayed his wicket

PTI | October 14, 2010

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said his working equation with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is "excellent" and there is no "trust deficit" between him and Congress President Sonia Gandhi.

He said even Rajiv Gandhi, with whom things were said to have "gone wrong", had said that "many things said about him (Mukherjee) I found weren't true".

At one point in an interview to "India Today", Mukherjee says he was already 75 and "there is a limit beyond which you cannot go. How long do you expect me to stay. I have overstayed my wicket."

"It's very good, excellent in fact. I have worked with him for many years. He is a perfect gentleman and embodiment of courtesy and politeness," the minister said when asked about his working equation with Prime Minister, "a man who once called you sir".

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