JOURNEY OF

Mr Pranab Mukherjee (President Of India)

Personal Life
He was born in Mirati village near Kirnahar town, District Birbhum, West Bengal, on December 11, 1935, the son of Kamada Kinkar Mukherjee and Rajlakshmi Mukherjee. His father was active in the Congress party from 1920, was a member of AICC, and West Bengal Legislative Council (1952-64), and President, District Congress Committee, Birbhum (WB)[2].

Education Qualification
He attended the Suri Vidyasagar College, Suri (Birbhum), then affiliated with the University of Calcutta. He passed double M.A one in History, another is political science .After that he passed LL.B . He attended the Suri Vidyasagar College, Suri (Birbhum), and then affiliated with the University of Calcutta. He married Suvra Mukherjee on July 13, 1957 and has two sons and a daughter.

He married Suvra Mukherjee on July 13, 1957 and now has Two sons and a Daughter.

Starts Of Professional Life

Mukherjee began his career as an upper-division clerk in the office of the Deputy Accountant-General (Post and Telegraph) in Calcutta before he became a collegeteacher and later a journalist. He worked for noted Bengali publication Desher Dak (Call of Motherland). Mukherjee was chairman of the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata.He is also the former chairman and president of the Rabindra Bharati University and the Nikhil Bharat Banga Sahitya Sammelan. Mukherjee is a former trustee of the Bangiya Sahitya Parishad and the Bidhan Memorial Trust. Mukherjee used to be on the Planning Board of the Asiatic Society.

Starts Of Political Career

Mukherjee got involved in the politics of the Indian National Congress in 1969. He had managed the successful election campaign for independent candidate Krishna Menon during the by-elections in Midnapore. Prime Minister and Congress supreme leader Indira Gandhi recognized his talents and made him a part of her party. Gandhi gave Mukherjee a seat in the Rajya Sabha (upper house) of the parliament from the Congress party in July 1969. Mukherjee was later re-elected in 1975, 1981, 1993 and 1999.

 Mukherjee became a staunch Indira Gandhi loyalist. He was described as her "man for all seasons". Mukherjee emerged from it unscathed and rose through a series of cabinet posts to become the Finance Minister of India from 1982 to 1984 It was Pranab Mukherjee in his stint as Indira Gandhi's Finance Minister that had signed the letter appointing Dr. Manmohan Singh as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.

 Indira Gandhi made Mukherjee the Deputy Leader of the Congress in the Rajya Sabha in 1978. He was made Leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha in 1980. Mukherjee was considered the top ranking Indian cabinet minister and he even presided over the cabinet meetings in the absence of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

 Mukherjee's political career revived following the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi in 1991 when P.V. Narasimha Rao chose to appoint him as deputy chairman of the Indian Planning Commission and subsequently as a Union Cabinet Minister. Mukherjee served as External Affairs Minister for the first time from 1995 to 1996 in Rao's cabinet.

 Mukherjee today is considered to be a Gandhi family loyalist and the principal architect of Sonia Gandhi's entry into politics, a mentoring responsibility he is still believed to be shouldering. He was made General Secretary of the AICC in 199899 after Sonia Gandhi became Congress President. Mukherjee was made President of the West Bengal Congress in 2000 and held the position until his resignation in 2010.

Life Career Positions

Union Minister of Industrial Development 19731974 Union Minister of Shipping and Transport 1974 Minister of State for Finance 19741975 Union Minister of Revenue and Banking 19751977 Treasurer of the Congress Party 197879 Treasurer of the All India Congress Committee 197879 Leader of the House of the Rajya Sabha 198085 Union Minister of Commerce and Steel and Mines 19801982 Union Minister of Finance 19821984 Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund 19821985 Board of Governors of the World Bank 19821985 Board of Governors of the Asian Development Bank 19821984 Board of Governors of the African Development Bank 19821985 Union Minister of Commerce and Supply 1984

 Chairman of the Campaign Committee of Congress for conducting national elections to Parliament 1984, 1991, 1996 and 1998 Chairman of the Group of 24 (a ministerial group attached to IMF and World Bank) 1984 and 20092012 President of the State Unit of Congress Party in West Bengal 1985 and 200010 Chairman of the Economic Advisory Cell of the AICC 19871989 Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission 19911996 Union Minister of Commerce 19931995 Union Minister of External Affairs 19951996 President, SAARC Council of Ministers' Conference 1995 General Secretary of the All India Congress Committee 19981999 Chairman of the Central Election Coordination Committee 19992012 Leader of the House of the Lok Sabha 20042012 Union Minister of Defence 20042006 Union Minister of External Affairs 20062009 Union Minister of Finance 20092012 Elected President of India on July 22, 2012.

Latest Achievment By This Great Leader

Mr. Pranab Mukherjee th The 13 President Of India

The Former finance Minister Of India and One Of The Senior Leader In Indian National Congress as been elected as the New President Of The Very First Democratic Country , INDIA

On 22 July, 2012, V.K. Agnihotri, The returning Officer for the Presidential Election , Told the Media That Mr. Pranab Mukherjee has been duly elected as a President.

Mukherjee won The Race for the Presidents House with a huge 7,13,763 Number Of Votes, Defending his rival P.A Sangma

25th the Day Has Come

Road to Rashtrapati Bhavan: Pranab Mukherjee set to be President

We Hope This President Make Some New areas Of Development and Create a better Future Of Indian Citizen

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Atul Pandey Pankaj Asnani SimranJeet Singh