Lessons from Pranab Mukherjee’s classroom in Nagpur

At the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh headquarters in Nagpur, when former president Pranab Mukherjee started defining Indian nationalism through the prism of pluralism, secularism and tolerance, it appeared we had been transported to a civics class. The kind of criticism that came his way before he could even head for Nagpur, was something that even Pranab Mukherjee would not have anticipated. Lal Bahadur Shastri repeated this in the 1966 Republic Day parade since RSS activists had helped the nation during the war against Pakistan in 1965. By going to Nagpur, has Pranab Mukherjee proved that he is a Gandhian or someone who has betrayed the Father of the Nation?