JOURNEY OFMr 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 college-teacher 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 1998–99 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 1973–1974• Union Minister of Shipping and Transport 1974• Minister of State for Finance 1974–1975• Union Minister of Revenue and Banking 1975–1977• Treasurer of the Congress Party 1978–79• Treasurer of the All India Congress Committee 1978–79• Leader of the House of the Rajya Sabha 1980–85• Union Minister of Commerce and Steel and Mines 1980–1982• Union Minister of Finance 1982–1984• Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund 1982–1985• Board of Governors of the World Bank 1982–1985• Board of Governors of the Asian Development Bank 1982–1984• Board of Governors of the African Development Bank 1982–1985• 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 2009–2012

• President of the State Unit of Congress Party in West Bengal 1985 and 2000–10

• Chairman of the Economic Advisory Cell of the AICC 1987–1989• Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission 1991–1996• Union Minister of Commerce 1993–1995• Union Minister of External Affairs 1995–1996• President, SAARC Council of Ministers' Conference 1995• General Secretary of the All India Congress Committee 1998–1999• Chairman of the Central Election Coordination Committee 1999–2012• Leader of the House of the Lok Sabha 2004–2012• Union Minister of Defence 2004–2006• Union Minister of External Affairs 2006–2009• Union Minister of Finance 2009–2012• Elected President of India on July 22, 2012.

Latest Achievment By This Great Leader

Mr. Pranab Mukherjee

The 13th 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 President’s 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

Presented by:Atul PandeyPankaj AsnaniSimranJeet Singh