Pranab Mukherjee A Former President of India. He served our nation for 6 years.
He was born into a bengali family at a Mirati, a village in the Bengal Presidency of British India( now in Birbhum district, West Bangal.).Mukherjee's father, Kamada Kinkar Mukherjee, was deeply involved in India's struggle for independence from British in the first half of 20th century.
Pranab was educated at the Suri Vidyasagar Collage and earned an advanced degree in history and political science and law degree from the university.
In 1963 he accepted a teaching position at a collage near Kolkata. He also a editor of Bengali-language monthy periodical and later worked for weekly publication..
Mukherjee started his political career as a founding member of the "Bangla Congress". He became a member of Rajya Sacha in July 1969 on Bangla Congress ticket. The Prime Minister of India , Indira Gandhi recognised his talents and recruited him to her party, The Indian National Congress. Mukherjee was re-elected in the house in 1975,1981,1993 and 1999. Mukherjee became a Gandhi loyalist and he was appointed Union Deputy Minister of Industrial Development in Indira Gandhi's cabinet in 1973. In 1979 Mukkherjee became Deputy Leader of the INC in the Rajya Sabha and in 1980 he was appointed Leader of the House. And in 1982 he became Finance Minister to 1987. In between 1986 Mukherjee founded another party, the Rashtriya Samajwadi Congress(RSC), in West Bangal. And RSC had fared terribly in the 1987 Assembly polls in West Bangal. In 1991 P.V Narasimha Rao appointed as deputy chairman of the India Planning Commission and subsequently as a union cabinet minister. He served as External Affairs Minister for the first time from 1995 to 1996 in Rao's cabinet. When Sonia Gandhi enter the politics, he was made General Secretary of the AICC in 1998-99 after Sonia Gandhi became Congress President Mukherjee was made President of West Bengal Congress in 2000. Mukherjee once again became the Finance Minister of India in 2009. And in 2010 Mukherjee was awarded 'Finance Minister of the Year for Asia'. Mukherjee was nominated as the presidential candidate of the United Progressive Alliance on 15 June 2012 against NDA candidate P.A Sangma.
In the election , Mukherjee received 713,763 votes while Sangma had 315,987.
Pranab Mukherjee married Suvra Mukherjee on 13 July 1957. They had two sons and a daughter. Suvra died on 18 August 2015 aged 74 of heart failure while Mukherjee was still in office.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, on 10 August 2020 he twitted that he had tested positive for COVID-19 prior to his surgery to remove a blood clot in his brain. He was admitted to the hospital after accidentally slipping and falling in his bathroom. He was on ventilator support and in critical condition at the Army's Research and Referral hospital in Delhi. On 13 August , the hospital reported that Mukherjee was in deep coma after he underwent brain Surgery.
Mukherjee died on 31 August 2020, aged 84. He was a 13th President of India.
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