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Mukherjee is finance minister...for Pranab Mukherjee I am very much sincere. About this I am very much serious. It `s Congress party`s decision (as to) who will be the candidate. We cannot say. I cannot interfere in Congress party`s business. "But if you ask my party`s choice or the personal choice, then I`ll say, I love Miera Kumar. She is a soft-spoken lady from the scheduled caste background," she told in a TV channel.
She was replying to questions about her party`s stand on the coming Presidential election and why Mukherjee`s name is not not on her wishlist for the post of President. Banerjee also favoured former Governor Gopalakrishna Gandhi or former President A P J Abdul Kalam. "These three names are better, I think so," she said, according to the transcript of the interview issued by the channel.
Asked about Mukherjee, Banerjee, chief of Tranamool Congress, which runs a coalition government with the Congress in West Bengal, said, "Is he the son of Bengal? He may the son of world....I don`t think so but it is his choice. I don`t know." To a query about Mukherjee not not being in Mamata Banerjee`s wishlist for the post of President, Banerjee said "No. I didn`t say. But if country allows him, who am I to oppose it."
