Rahul Gandhi, while speaking at the launch event, said, "It is an honour for me to come and release the book. I would like to thank Haji for the work he did. He was a carpenter and I think all his life he built bridges between communities, people and ideas"

The Congress leader further said during his speech that for him, the single most important characteristic of a leader is humility

"I believe that if a leader is not humble and if a leader is not able to observe himself, then he cannot be a leader. The first thing I realised while the speeches were going on was that Haji was a gentleman who could stand in the assembly of Kerala and laugh at himself, that he did not take himself so seriously and that he had the ability to look at himself and laugh at himself so he certainly had the quality of humility," said Rahul Gandhi

P. Seethi Haji's son, P. K. Basheer, was also present at the book launch event

Basheer, like his father, is a member of the Indian Union Muslim League party and an incumbent MLA from Kerala's Eranad Assembly constituency

P. Seethi Haji was a member of the Kerala legislative assembly from the Kondotty Assembly constituency. He was also the state secretary of the Muslim League and the director of Chandrika newspaper