The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee will receive the first copy of a book "President Pranab Mukherjee – A Statesman” tomorrow (July 2, 2017) at a function to be held at Rashtrapati Bhavan. The President will receive the book from Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi who will formally release it.

The book "President Pranab Mukherjee – A Statesman” has been published by the Statesman, one of India’s oldest English-language newspapers. This book, a comprehensive photographic record of India’s 13th President, covers Shri Mukherjee’s Presidency and documents his various roles including those as a humane first citizen, as a thought-leader and patron of educational institutions & the arts and as the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces etc.

This release issued at 1730 hrs.