One of the few Congressmen who have come out in support of Pranab Mukherjee's decision to attend the RSS function at Nagpur is former Himachal Pradesh chief minister Virbhadra Singh .


"Pranab Mukherjee is a senior leader and I believe that he will not say anything at the RSS event that will harm the country. He was a President of India, and he can go anywhere where he dims fit," he said.


"I'm sure Pranab Mukherjee won't say anything in Nagpur which isn't in favour of the nation. In fact whatever he says will be in favour of the country," Virbhadra Singh said.


The other Congressman who did not criticise Pranab Mukherjee's decision was Salman Khurshid, who said, "We should first wait for his speech at the RSS event, before that it would not be right to pass a judgment. He is a person of great intellect, he must have thought enough before taking the decision.


"We have always discussed him in critical situations, we trust him enough to have made offered him the position of the President of the country, a position that he served with brilliance. He is above the party, if he thinks a discussion is required and should be taken forward, we should wait and see and it impacts the country. We should not make comment before we know about the implications," he added.