Short Biography of Pranab Mukherjee President of India
Short Biography of Pranab Mukherjee The President of India
Congress on Friday nominated Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee for the post of president of India.
The presidential election will take place on July 19 and counting of votes will happen on July 22
Then it will be clear who becomes the President of India.
Updated on - Sunday, July 22, 2012
Today Pranab Mukherjee was elected as the 13th President of India.
Pranab Mukherjee will be sworn in as the 13th President of the country on July 25.
Chief Justice of India SH Kapadia will administer the oath to Mukherjee at a ceremony in the Central Hall of Parliament House at 1100 hrs on Wednesday.
Age – 77 Year old
Pranab Mukherjee his father Kamada Kinkar Mukherjee was a member of AICC, and West Bengal Legislative Council (1952–64), and President, District Congress Committee, Birbhum (WB).
He started his political career in Year 1969 from Upper house.
Controversies and Pranab Mukherjee –
• Mukherjee was a Minister in Indira Gandhi's Cabinet during the infamous Emergency and was held by many to be personally responsible for some of the excesses
• S. Gurumurthy and Arun Shourie exposed how Pranab Mukerjee, the then Finance Minister of India helped Reliance Industries against Bombay Dyeing through differential taxation by influencing the Income Tax Department in textile industry.As a result Bombay Dyeing was almost decimated.
• He was summoned before the Shah Commission but followed Mrs. Gandhi's lead in refusing to resign before it. A police case was registered against him which was withdrawn when Mrs. Gandhi returned to power.
Shah Commission was a commission of inquiry appointed by Government of India in 1977 to inquire into all the excesses committed in the Indian Emergency (1975 - 77). It was headed by Justice J.C. Shah, a former chief Justice of India.
• Name - Pranab Kumar Mukherjee
• Constituency -Jangipur
• Father's Name - Late Shri Kamada Kinkar Mukherjee
• Mother's Name - Late Smt. Rajlakshmi Mukherjee
• Date of Birth - 11 Dec 1935
• Birth Place - Vill.Mirati, Kirnahar, Distt. Birbhum ,West Bengal
• Maritial Status – Married
• Date of Marriage - 13 Jul 1957
• Spouse Name - Smt. Suvra Mukherjee
• No. of Children - No.of Sons:2 No.of Daughters:1 names - Abhijit and Indrajit
• State Name - West Bengal
• Party Name - Indian National Congress
• Permanent Address Flat No. 2-A, First Floor,60/2/7, Kavi Bharti Sarani, Lake Road, Kolkata - 700 029 West BengalTel. (033) 24648366
• Present Address 13, Talkatora Road,New Delhi - 110 001Tels. (011) 23737623, 23737657 (R), 23092810, 23092510 (O), Fax. (011) 23737658 (R), 23093289 (O)
• Email id - pkm[at]sansad[dot]nic[dot]in
• Educational Qualifications - M.A. (History), M.A. (Political Science), LL.B., D. Litt. (Honoris Causa) Educated at Vidyasagar College, Suri, Calcutta University, West Bengal
• Profession - Political and Social Worker Teacher Journalist Writer Mukherjee began his career as a college-teacher and later as a journalist. He worked for noted Bengali publication Desher Dak (Call of Motherland). He also became trustee of Bangiya Sahitya Parishad and later President of Nikhil Bharat Banga Sahitya Sammelan.
• Positions Held
• July 1969 Elected to Rajya Sabha
• Jan. 1973-Jan. 1974 Union Deputy Minister, Industrial Development
• Jan. 1974-Oct. 1974 Union Deputy Minister, Shipping and Transport
• Oct. 1974-Dec. 1975 Union Minister of State, Finance
• July 1975 Re-elected to Rajya Sabha (2nd term)
• Dec. 1975-Mar. 1977 Union Minister, Revenue and Banking (Independent Charge)
• 1978 -1980 Deputy Leader, Congress Party, Rajya Sabha
• 27 Jan. 1978 - 18 Ja Member, Congress Working Committee (INC)
• 1978 - 1979 Treasurer, All India Congress Committee
Treasurer, Congress (I) Party in Parliament
• 1978 - 1986 Member, Central Parliamentary Board, AICC
• Jan. 1980-Jan. 1982 Union Minister, Commerce and Steel and Mines
• 1980 -1985 Leader of the House, Rajya Sabha
• Aug. 1981 Re-elected to Rajya Sabha (3rd term)
• Jan. 1982-Dec. 1984 Union Cabinet Minister, Finance with additional charge of Ministry of Commerce and Supply
• 1984-1991,1996 and 1 Chairman, Campaign Committee of AICC for Conducting National Election to Parliament
• 1987 - 1989 Chairman, Economic Advisory Cell, AICC
• June 1991-May 1996 Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission
• Jan. 1993-Feb. 1995 Union Cabinet Minister, Commerce
• 1993 Re-elected to Rajya Sabha (4th term)
• Feb. 1995-May 1996 Union Cabinet Minister, External Affairs
• 1996 - 2003 Member, Business Advisory Committee, Rajya Sabha
• 1996 -2004 Member, Committee on Privileges, Rajya Sabha,
Member, Committee on Rules, Rajya Sabha
• 1996 -1999 Member, Consultative Committee for External Affairs
• 1997 Chairman, Departmentally related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment & Forest
• 1999 Re-elected to Rajya Sabha (5th term)
• 28 June 1999 onwards Chairman, Central Election Coordination Committee, AICC
• 10 Aug.1997 till dat Member, Congress Working Committee( INC)
• 1998 - 1999 General Secretary, AICC
• June 1998 - May 2004 Chairman, Departmentally related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs
• Aug. 2000 till date President, West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee
• 12 Dec. 2001 onwards Member, Central Election Committee, AICC
• 13 May 2004 Elected to 14th Lok Sabha
• 23 May 2004 - 24 Oct Union Cabinet Minister, Defence
• 25 May 2004 Leader of the House, Lok Sabha
• 25 Oct. 2006-23 May Union Cabinet Minister, External Affairs
• 24 Jan. 2009 - 23 Ma Ministry of Finance (additional charge)
• 20 May 2009 Re-elected to 15th Lok Sabha (2nd term)
• 26 May 2009 Leader of the House, Lok Sabha
• 23 May 2009 onwards Union Cabinet Minister, Finance
International Organizations:
(i) Board of Governors
(a)International Monetary Fund 1982 -1985
(b) World Bank, 1982 - 1985
(c) Asian Development Bank, 1982 -1985
(d) African Development Bank, 1982 -1985
(e) Member, Boards of governance since May 2009
(ii) Chairman, Group 24 Ministerial Group attached to IMF and World Bank, 1984
(iii) Presided over SAARC Council of Ministers Conference, May 1995; November 1995; 2006 and 2007 Leader of Indian delegations to
(i) Colombo Plan Finance Ministers` Conference, Singapore, 1975 and Colombo, 1976
(ii) Commonwealth Finance Ministers` Conference, 1982, 1983 and 1984
(iii) Annual General Meeting of World Bank and IMF, 1982, 1983 and 1984
(iv) Annual General Meeting of Asian Development Bank, 1982, 1983 and 1984
(v) Ministerial Conference of WTO, Marrakesh, 1994
(vi) UN General Assembly, 1994, 1995, 2005 and 2006
(vii) Social Summit, Copenhagen, 1995
(viii) 40th Anniversary of Asian Conference, Bandung, 1995
(ix) Non-Aligned Foreign Ministers Conference, Carte-Ghana, 1995
(x) Conference of Commonwealth Heads of Governments (CHOGAM), Auckland 1996
Honours and Distinctions conferred:
i)Rated as one of the best five Finance Ministers of the world, 1984 according to a survey of Euro Money, a journal published from New York;
(ii)Conferred Best Parliamentarian Award, 1997;
(iii) Awarded Padma Vibhushan, 2007
(iv) The London based magazine `Emerging Markets` has named Shri Pranab Mukherjee``Finance Minister of the Year for Asia 2010``.
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17 comments:
Thanks for this detailed update and inside story.
Hope the presidential election will run well and safe!
why cant we have somone apolitical,someone devoted to social service...
Good to know the biography of our future President. Was he elected to Lok Sabha only from 2004?
Destination Infinity
Very detailed bio of Pranab, its nice to learn other historical figures.
@Come At Me Bro
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@Renu
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there is no law and we do not choose.
@Destination Infinity
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@Rachit
thanks.
great post!!
funny little fact i read about Pranab Mukherjee that he wished to be reborn as one of the horses in the President's stable at the Rashtrapati Bhawan,
and his sister told him 'why a horse in the President's stable, he will become the President of the country one day'
@manaNmind
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Great Pranab Mukherjee (long live)