Facts about the President of the Republic of India

Some of the facts about Pranab Mukherjee, the president of India :-

• DoB :- 11 December 1935
• Birth Place :- Birbhum district, Bengal
• He is 13th President of India
• He began his political career with the Indian National Congress in 1969 under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
•  He formed his own political party, the Rashtriya Samajwadi Congress, but later merged it with Congress in 1989.
• In 1984, Pranab was rated as the best Finance Minister in the World according to a survey of Euromoney magazine.
• In 2010, he was awarded “Finance Minister of the Year for Asia” by Emerging Markets, the daily newspaper of record for the World Bank and the IMF.
• Pranab Mukherjee was recognised as the “Finance Minister of the Year by “The Banker” which is monthly international financial affairs publication owned by The Financial Times in 2010.
• He was awarded Padma Vibhushan, the second highest civilian award of India, in 2008 by The Government of India.
• Interestingly, His father, Kamada Kinkar Mukherjee, was a member of the Indian National Congress and had spent more than ten years in British jails during the Indian Independence Movement.
• Pranabda, as he is called,  holds two Master of Arts degrees in History and Political Science and also a degree in law from the University of Calcutta.
• He is inspired by Deng Xiaoping(a Chinese politician, statesman, and diplomat), and has quoted him quite frequently.
• In his free time, he sticks to his hobbies which are reading, gardening and music.
• Mukherjee celebrates thevery famous Durga Pooja at his ancestral home in Mirati village in West Bengal’s Birbhum district.
• Mukherjee began his career as an upper-division clerk in the office of the Deputy Accountant-General (Post and Telegraph) in Kolkata (then Calcutta). He than shifted to become a college-teacher and later a journalist.
• Pranab was described as “man for all seasons” for Late PM Indira Gandhi.
• Anti Corruption crusader Anna Hazare and Arvind Kejriwal have claimed to have proof of his corruption which is expected to release shortly.

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