Less than a week before former President Pranab Mukherjee went on ventilator support, he had called up his son with a request.The former President asked his son to bring some jackfruit.“Kaathal niye aaye (bring me some jackfruit),” he had told Abhijit, his politician son in Bengali, longing for a bit of home.“I went to our village, Mirati (in West Bengal’s Birbhum district), from Kolkata to get jackfruit for him.It was a ripe 25kg fruit.I took a train to Delhi on August 3 and met him… Baba and I both love train journeys,” said Abhijit.
Since he had served as defense minister, his medical records had been maintained by Army doctors.So he was taken to the Army’s Research and Referral Hospital in Delhi Cantonment.
I have been able to see him four times, with PPE and protective measures in place.He was breathing naturally when I last saw him,” he said.
