Live! Sonia, Sushma, Yechury share 22 hours with President Pranab on Air India One
December 11, 2013  16:25
CPM leader Sitaram Yechuri returned to Delhi today. He was in Johannesburg for Nelson Mandela's memorial ceremony yesterday along with President Pranab Mukherjee, Sonia Gandhi and Sushma Swaraj.  They travelled back with the president on board Air India One.

At Parliament today, he was heard telling other MPs that he had a 22 hour flight with a four-hour stopover in Cape Town and he was feeling jet-lagged and sleepy.

Yechury also said that Pranab Mukherjee had told him that he felt like a prisoner in the palacial Rashtrapati Bhavan, to which Yechury told the president that the Congress should not have chosen an active politician as the President of India.

He said he spent over an hour with the President discussing future political formulations and the impact of AAP. 

Sushma Swaraj also spent considerable time with the President on
the flight from Cape Town to New Delhi as did Sonia Gandhi. 
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