If you are talking about JEE level,the first statement is wrong.Because forget induction as we should not go there in case of point charges.Just apply Coulomb's law and you get the answer.Another thing regarding protons attraction,that is definitely not related to any electrostatic attraction.It is due to their spinning about their axis or something like that which I can't recall correctly.However this too is well beyond the scope of JEE.So the 1st statement is wrong in my opinion.Some of the points raised by my friends in favour of DC Pandey's book does not look to suitable for our level.