Gurugram, June 27 -- Author Sharmistha Mukherjee, daughter of former President Pranab Mukherjee, on Saturday shared several recollections from her father's diaries and personal interactions with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying Pranab Mukherjee had written that after former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Modi was the only Prime Minister who could "read the pulse of the people so well."

"My father wrote in his diary that after Indira Gandhi, he (PM Modi) is the only prime minister who can read the pulse of the people so well. And I remember this writing came in the context of there was this massive flood in Jammu and Kashmir. And Modi Ji went and spent Diwali, I think, first at Siachen and then with the people of Jammu and Kashmir...An...