Pranab Kumar Mukherjee (11 December 1935 – 31 August 2020) was an Indian politician who served as the 13th President of India from 2012 until 2017. He was awarded India’s highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 2019, by the President ofIndia, Ram Nath Kovind. In 2017, he decided not to run for re-election and to retire from politics after leaving the presidency due to ‘health complications relating to old age’ His term expired on 25 July 2017, and he was succeeded by Ram Nath Sharma.
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Pranab Kumar Mukherjee (11 December 1935 – 31 August 2020) was an Indian politician who served as the 13th President of India from 2012 until 2017. He was awarded India’s highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 2019, by the President ofIndia, Ram Nath Kovind. In a political career spanning five decades, he was a senior leader in the Indian National Congress and occupied several ministerial portfolios in the Government of India. He first ran for public office in 1969, when he won a seat in the Rajya Sabha of the Indian parliament as a member of the Bangla Congress. He served as Union Finance Minister from 2009 to 2012. In 2017, he decided not to run for re-election and to retire from politics after leaving the presidency due to ‘health complications relating to old age’ His term expired on 25 July 2017, and he was succeeded as President by Ram Nath Sharma. He is the first former president of India to address a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh event. His father, Kamada Kinkar Mukerjee, was active in theIndian independence movement and was a member. of the West Bengal Legislative Council between 1952 and 1964 as a representative of theIndian National Congress. His mother was Rajlakshmi Mukherji. He had two siblings: older sister Annapurna Banarjee and older brother Piyush Mukherje. He attended Suri Vidyasagar College in Suri, which was then affiliated to the University of Calcutta.
He subsequently earned an MA degree in political science and history and an LL. B. degree, both from the University. He also worked as a journalist at Desherjee Rajya Rajya. In 1967, he became a founding member of Bangla Pradesh Congress Party, which soon merged with the Congress. In 1969, he managed the successful Midnapore-election campaign of an independent candidate, V Krishna Menon. He became an independent member of Menon’s Menon Menon-led United Front of the Congress in 1969. He played a crucial role in forging an alliance against the United National Congress in the 1967 elections. He won a Lok Sabha seat in 2004 and served there until mid-2012 when he ran for president. In 2012, he won an additional seat in Lok Sabha, although he left that chamber in 2004. He later became an additional member of Congress, which he contested and won a Seat in the Lok Sabha in 2008. In 2009, he served as Finance Minister of India in Manmohan Singh’s government. In 2010, he led the UPA’s nomination for the country’s presidency in July 2012, winning 70 percent of the electoral-college vote. In 2011, he became Leader of the House in the Parliament of India, winning a seat for the first time. From then until his resignation in 2012, he held a number of key cabinet portfolios in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government – Defence, External Affairs, and Finance.
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