Gurugram, June 27 -- Sharmistha Mukherjee, daughter of former President Pranab Mukherjee, on Saturday said her recent article on Prime Minister Narendra Modi drew from an observation made by her father after the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, describing the verdict as a mandate not just for the BJP but for Modi personally.

Speaking about the article, Sharmistha Mukherjee said, "I wrote an article which was published in many Hindi and also regional newspapers. So there I shared an insight made by my father regarding the 2014 election and Narendra Modi ji. That was for the first time in the history of Lok Sabha elections that a new face was declared as the prime ministerial candidate."

She said that, unlike previous elections, where the Prime ...