As Pranab prepares for RSS event, here's how Congress leaders feel about it

While most Congress leaders have urged the former president and a Congress veteran to reconsider his decision, some party men have asked him to use the occasion to tell RSS where its problems lie

Despite several Congress leaders urging him to withdraw his decision to attend an event organised by the rashtraiya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in the interest of secularism, former President Pranab Mukherjee is set to go ahead and attend the programme in Nagpur on Thursday.

While several Congress leaders urged him to reconsider his decision, many said that his visit would create an "undesirable difference" in the country. Even his daughter and Delhi Congress chief spokesperson Sharmistha Mukherjee took to Twitter on Wednesday to warn the party veteran against attending the event.

"Hope @CitiznMukherjee now realises from today's incident how BJP dirty