Pranab babu: The man who could have been Prime Minister

Jayanta Roy Chowdhury New Delhi, Nov 12 (UNI) India's 13th President Pranab Mukherjee will probably always be remembered as the man who could have been India's Prime Minister. Pranab babu as most politicians called him was however perhaps never destined to attain that high office and which is why he eventually decided to live on top of the Raisina Hill as the country's first citizen. Mukherjee was an accomplished economist, a masterful diplomat who like Matternich could balance both Soviet Russia and the US as he jostled to fly India's flag abroad, and of course a seasoned back-room politician adept…