new Delhi. Former President Pranab Mukherjee is no more. He died today. For several days, former President Pranab Mukherjee was in deep coma. Mukherjee, 84, was put on ventilator and being treated for a lung infection. Information about Mukherjee’s death has been tweeted by his son.
Pranab Kumar Mukherjee: 11 December 1935, mratyu 31 August 2020 West Bengal) has been the thirteenth President of India. Pranab Mukherjee has been awarded the Bharat Ratna on 26 January 2019! He has been a senior leader of the Indian National Congress. The United Progressive Alliance led by the Indian National Congress declared him its candidate. In direct competition, he won his rival candidate P.A. Defeated Sangma. He took the oath of office and secrecy as the thirteenth President of India on 25 July 2012. Pranab Mukherjee has written the book ‘The Coalition Years: 1996-2012’.
Pranab Mukherjee was born to Kamada Kinker Mukherjee and Rajalakshmi Mukherjee in a Brahmin family of Mirati village near Kirnahar town in West Bengal’s Virbhum district.
His father had been active in the Congress party since 1920 and was a member of the West Bengal Legislative Council from 1952 to 64 and chairman of the Virbhum (West Bengal) District Congress Committee. His father was a respected freedom fighter who also served more than 10 years in prison as a result of the caliphate of British rule.
Pranab Mukherjee studied at Suri Vidyasagar College in Suri (Virbhum), which was then affiliated to the University of Calcutta.
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He holds a master’s degree in history and political science as well as a law degree from the University of Calcutta. He has also been a lawyer and college professor. He also holds an honorary D. Litt title. He started his career first as a college professor and later as a journalist. He has also worked at Bangla Prakashan Sansthan Desher Dak (Call of the Motherland). Pranab Mukherjee was also the Trustee of Bangiya Sahitya Parishad and the President of All India Bang Sahitya Sammelan.
political career
His parliamentary career is nearly five decades old, starting in 1969 as a Rajya Sabha member of the Congress Party (Upper House). He was re-elected in 1975, 1981, 1993 and 1999. In 1973, he joined the Cabinet as the Union Deputy Minister of Industrial Development Department.
He was elected to many cabinet posts from 1982 to 1984 and became the Finance Minister of India in 1984. In 1984, he was rated as the world’s best finance minister in a survey by Euromoney magazine. [5] His term was not paid by the last installment of US $ 1.1 billion of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan of India. It was remarkable to get. Dr. Manmohan Singh was the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India during Pranab’s tenure as Finance Minister. He was a victim of the conspiracy of the supporters of Rajiv Gandhi after the Lok Sabha elections after the assassination of Indira Gandhi, which did not allow him to join the Cabinet. He was expelled from the Congress party for some time. During that time, he formed his political party National Socialist Congress, but after the agreement with Rajiv Gandhi in 1989, he merged his party into Congress Party. His political career revived when P.V. Narasimha Rao decided to appoint him first as the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission and later as a Union Cabinet Minister. He served as Foreign Minister for the first time in Rao’s cabinet from 1995 to 1996. In 1997, he was elected Outstanding Parliamentarian.
He is also the president of the West Bengal state unit of the Congress since 1985. In 2004, when the Congress formed the government as the leader of the coalition government, Congress Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was just a Rajya Sabha MP. Therefore, Pranab Mukherjee, who won the Lok Sabha elections for the first time from Jangipur (Lok Sabha constituency), was made the Leader of the House in the Lok Sabha. He also has the distinction of being the minister of various important ministries, including Ministry of Defense, Finance, Foreign Affairs, Revenue, Shipping, Transport, Communications, Economic Affairs, Commerce and Industry. He has been a leader of the Congress Parliamentary Party and the Congress Legislature Party, which includes all Congress MPs and MLAs of the country. Apart from this, he was also the Union Finance Minister in the Council of Ministers of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of the Congress-led government, leader of the House in the Lok Sabha, President of the Bengal Pradesh Congress Party. Before the Lok Sabha elections, when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh underwent his by-pass surgery, Pranab da, despite being a Union Minister in the Ministry of External Affairs, was instrumental in the operation of the Cabinet by taking over the additional charge of the Union Minister in the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs and Finance.
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