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Place of Birth: Birbhum district, West Bengal, India
About Pranab Mukherjee
- Pranab Mukherjee (born 11 December 1935) is an Indian politician who served as the 13th President of India from 2012 until 2017.
- In a political career spanning five decades, Mukherjee has been a senior leader in the Indian National Congress and has occupied several ministerial portfolios in the Government of India.
- Prior to his election as President, Mukherjee was Union Finance Minister from 2009 to 2012.
- He was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna in 2019 by the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind. Mukherjee got his break in politics in 1969 when the Then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi helped him get elected to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Parliament of India, on a Congress ticket.
- Following a meteoric rise, he became one of Gandhi's most trusted lieutenants and a minister in her cabinet by 1973.
- During the controversial Internal Emergency of 1975–77, he was accused (like several other Congress leaders) of committing gross excesses.
- Mukherjee's service in a number of ministerial capacities culminated in his first stint as Finance Minister of India in 1982–84.
- He was also the Leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha from 1980 to 1985. Mukherjee was sidelined from the Congress during the premiership of Rajiv Gandhi (Indira Gandhi's son).
- Mukherjee had viewed himself and not the inexperienced Rajiv, as the rightful successor to Indira following her assassination in 1984.
- Mukherjee lost out in the ensuing power struggle.
- He formed his own party, the Rashtriya Samajwadi Congress, which merged with the Congress in 1989 after reaching a consensus with Rajiv Gandhi.
- After Rajiv Gandhi's assassination in 1991, Mukherjee's political career revived when Prime Minister P.
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- Narasimha Rao appointed him Planning Commission head in 1991 and foreign minister in 1995.
- Following this, as elder statesman of the Congress, Mukherjee was the principal and architect of Sonia Gandhi's ascension to the party's presidency in 1998. When the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) came into power in 2004, Mukherjee won a Lok Sabha seat (the popularly elected lower house of Parliament) seat for the first time.
- From then until his resignation in 2012, Mukherjee was practically number-two in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government.
- He held a number of key cabinet portfolios—Defence (2004–06), External Affairs (2006–09) and Finance (2009–12)—apart from heading several Groups of Ministers (GoMs) and being Leader of the House in the Lok Sabha.
- After securing the UPA's nomination for the country's presidency in July 2012, Mukherjee comfortably defeated P.
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- Sangma in the race to Rashtrapati Bhavan, winning 70 percent of the electoral-college vote. In 2017, Mukherjee 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.
- He was succeeded as President by Ram Nath Kovind.
- In June 2018 Mukherjee became first former President of India to address a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) event.
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