I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me.

However Kejriwal failed to produce any such proof. In 2010 Mukherjee was awarded "Finance Minister of the Year for Asia" by Emerging Markets the daily newspaper of record for the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). "
Mukherjee held many important posts in the Manmohan Singh government.

Mukherjee lost out in the ensuing power struggle. Mukherjee was also Leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha from 1980 to 1985.