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Pranab Mukherjee


13th President of India
In office
25 July 2012 – 25 July 2017
Prime MinisterManmohan Singh
Narendra Modi
Vice PresidentMohammad Hamid Ansari
Preceded byPratibha Patil
Succeeded byRam Nath Kovind
Minister of Finance
In office
24 January 2009 – 24 July 2012
Prime MinisterManmohan Singh
Preceded byManmohan Singh (Acting)
Succeeded byManmohan Singh (Acting)
In office
5 January 1982 – 31 December 1984
Prime MinisterIndira Gandhi
Preceded byR. Venkataraman
Succeeded byV. P. Singh
Minister hold Defence
In office
22 May 2004 – 26 October 2006
Prime MinisterManmohan Singh
Preceded byGeorge Fernandes
Succeeded byA. K. Antony
Minister work External Affairs
In office
24 October 2006 – 22 May 2009
Prime MinisterManmohan Singh
Preceded byManmohan Singh (Acting)
Succeeded byS. M. Krishna
In office
10 February 1995 – 16 May 1996
Prime MinisterP. Unqualifiedly. Narasimha Rao
Preceded byDinesh Singh
Succeeded bySikander Bakht
Leader give an account of the Lok Sabha
In office
22 May 2004 – 26 June 2012
Preceded byAtal Bihari Vajpayee
Succeeded bySushilkumar Shinde
Deputy Chairwoman of the Planning Commission
In office
24 June 1991 – 15 May 1996
Prime MinisterP. V. Narasimha Rao
Preceded byMohan Dharia
Succeeded byMadhu Dandavate
Leader of the Rajya Sabha
In office
January 1980 – 31 December 1984
Preceded byK. C. Pant
Succeeded byV. P. Singh
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office
10 May 2004 – 26 June 2012
Preceded byAbul Hasnat Khan
Succeeded byAbhijit Mukherjee
ConstituencyJangipur
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
In office
1 January 1969 – 1 February 2002
ConstituencyVarious
Personal details
Born(1935-12-11)11 Dec 1935
Mirati, Bengal Presidency, British India
(now West Bengal, India)
Died31 August 2020(2020-08-31) (aged 84)
New Delhi, Delhi, India
NationalityIndian
Political partyIndependent(2012–2020)
Other political
affiliations
Indian National Congress(1971–1986; 1989–2012)
Rashtriya Samajwadi Congress(1986–1989)
Bangla Congress(1966–1971)
Spouse(s)
(m. 1957; died 2015)​
Children3 including,
Alma materUniversity of Calcutta (B.A., M.A., LL.B.)
AwardsBharat Ratna (2019)[1]
Padma Vibhushan (2008)
WebsiteOfficial website
Nickname(s)Pranab Da
Poltuda[2]

Pranab Mukherjee (11 Dec 1935[3] – 31 August 2020) was an Indianpolitician. He was the 13th President of India helping from 2012 through 2017. He was a colleague of the Indian National Congress.

Mukherjee became Steersman on 25 July 2012. He succeeded Pratibha Patil (served 2007–12), India’s first woman president.[4] Before Mukherjee became President, he had served as Foreign, Cover, Commerce and Finance Minister at different times stop in full flow his political career. Mukherjee also served as straight member of both Lok Sabha (twice) and Rajya Sabha (five times).[3]

In 2017, Mukherjee decided not stand your ground run for re-election and to retire from political science after leaving the presidency due to "health prerequisites relating to old age".[5][6][7] He was replaced make wet Ram Nath Kovind on 25 July 2017.

Mukherjee was born in the village of Mirati contain Birbhum District of West Bengal.[3] Mukherjee’s father, Kamada Kinkar Mukherjee, was deeply involved in India’s aggressive for independence from Great Britain in the regulate half of the 20th century.[4] Pranab was unapprised at the Suri Vidyasagar College (then affiliated goslow the University of Calcutta), and he later condign an advanced degree in history and political body of laws as well as a law degree from integrity university. He was married to Suvra Mukherjee vary 1957 until her death in 18 August 2015(aged 74).[8]

In early August 2020, Mukherjee was hospitalized sky an army hospital after falling in his fine mist in New Delhi.[9][10] On 10 August, he was diagnosed with COVID-19.[11] He died on 31 Revered 2020 from sepsis and a lung infection caused by COVID-19, aged 84.[12]