New Delhi: Former President Pranab Mukherjee’s son Abhijit Mukherjee, a Congress MP, Tuesday said he plans to convert one floor of their house in West Bengal’s Jangipur into a museum-cum-library in the memory of the departed leader. He also said, he would like the government to issue a postage stamp in honour of his father.

Abhijit request a postal stamp in his father’s memory, if the government agrees, I will be very happy. I will gather his personal belongings, particularly the vast number of books, gift items like plaques and put them into that museum, he said. Abhijit, however, rued his father could never stay in that house for longer durations.

Abhijit remembered he had brought a jackfruit for his father from their farm in Jangipur on August 4. Jackfruit is available in Delhi, too, but I took all the pain because that’s from our field. I travelled by a train and brought him one, he said. My father ate it. Fortunately, his blood sugar level remained in control. I am happy I could at least fulfil this wish of my father, he said.

Abhijit said his father had told him that in politics and otherwise, one should avoid being revengeful. His message was clear and I will always remember it. Abhijit also thanked the doctors for trying their best while treating his father. They tried everything but it seems he had completed his role in the world. He passed away at the right age. He got everything whatever a common man wants to have, added.