The following paragraph is all about the life of Pranab Mukherjee. Read and find out about his life.
Pranab Mukherjee
Shree Pranab Kumar Mukherjee, the 13th and current President of India was born on 11 December 1935 in West Bengal. Mukherjee’s father, Kamada Kinkar Mukherjee, was deeply involved in India’s struggle for independence and was a member of Indian National Congress. Mukherjee attended the
Sufi Vidyasagar College in Sufi. He subsequently earned his master’s degree in political science and history, and also an LLB degree from the Department of Law of the University of Calcutta.
Mukherjee worked in the office of Deputy Accountant General (Post and Telegraph) in Calcutta, then taught political science at a college in South-z4 Parganas and also worked in a publication-Deshar Dak before starting his political career.
It was in the year 1969, when Mukherjee campaigned for the independent candidate, VK Krishna Menon, that the then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi spotted him (Mukherjee) and recruited him in her party as a member of the Rajya Sabha. Mukherjee was re-elected to the house in 1975, 1981, 1993 and 1999.
Early on in his career in the legislature, Mukherjee became the protege of Indira Gandhi. Under her tutelage, he served many positions of high responsibility in the cabinet and was named the
Finance Minister of India in 198z. However, post-Gandhi’s assassination in 1984 and under the leadership of Rajiv Gandhi, Mukherjee was sidelined from the party. He subsequently left the Congress Party in 1986 and by 1987, had formed a small political party of his own. However, Mukherjee and Rajiv Gandhi, both reconciled their differences later and Mukherjee merged his group back into Congress.
Mukherjee’s political career regained health when he was appointed the head of the Planning Commission in 1991 and then was made the Foreign Minister in 1995. As an elder statesman of the Congress, Mukherjee was also the principal architect of Sonia Gandhi’s ascension to the party’s presidency in 1998.
Mukherjee won a Lok Sabha seat for the first time in zoo+ In the general elections of that year, when the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) came to power, Mukherjee had won elections from Jangipur in West Bengal. Dr Manmohan Singh appointed Mukherjee as the Minister of Defence of India in 2004. Then, in 2006, he was named the External Affairs Minister, before serving as the Finance Minister in 2009. In wiz, his name was nominated for the prestigious post of the Head of the State-President of India. In July 2012, Mukherjee was elected to the honourable position. As a president, Pranab was applauded for rejecting the mercy petitions of Ajmal Kasab and Afzal Guru.
In the past, Miikherjee has also served as the Chairman of Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata and as the President of Rabindra Bharati University.
It can aptly be said that Mukherjee’s career is an eclectic mix of jobs and the current President is widely experienced in many spheres and fields professionally, executing his duties everywhere with diligence.
