biography Pranab mukharjee 100 words
Answers
Answer:
it is very difficult to write 100 wrods in brainly
Pranab Kumar Mukherjee (Bengali pronunciation 11 December 1935 – 31 August 2020) was an Indian statesman who served as the 13th President of India from 2012 until 2017. In a political career spanning five decades, Mukherjee was a senior leader in the Indian National Congress and occupied several ministerial portfolios in the Government of India.[9] Prior to his election as President, Mukherjee was Union Finance Minister from 2009 to 2012. He was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 2019, by the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind.[10]
Pranab Mukherjee
Pranab Mukherjee Portrait.jpg
13th President of India
In office
25 July 2012 – 25 July 2017
Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh
Narendra Modi
Vice President
Mohammad Hamid Ansari
Preceded by
Pratibha Patil
Succeeded by
Ram Nath Kovind
Minister of Finance
In office
24 January 2009 – 24 July 2012
Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh
Preceded by
Manmohan Singh (Acting)
Succeeded by
Manmohan Singh (Acting)
In office
5 January 1982 – 31 December 1984
Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi
Preceded by
R. Venkataraman
Succeeded by
V. P. Singh
Minister of Defence
In office
22 May 2004 – 26 October 2006
Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh
Preceded by
George Fernandes
Succeeded by
A. K. Antony
Minister of External Affairs
In office
24 October 2006 – 22 May 2009
Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh
Preceded by
Manmohan Singh (Acting)
Succeeded by
S. M. Krishna
In office
10 February 1995 – 16 May 1996
Prime Minister
P. V. Narasimha Rao
Preceded by
Dinesh Singh
Succeeded by
Sikander Bakht
Leader of the Lok Sabha
In office
22 May 2004 – 26 June 2012
Preceded by
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Succeeded by
Sushilkumar Shinde
Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission
In office
24 June 1991 – 15 May 1996
Prime Minister
P. V. Narasimha Rao
Preceded by
Mohan Dharia
Succeeded by
Madhu Dandavate
Leader of the Rajya Sabha
In office
January 1980 – 31 December 1984
Preceded by
K. C. Pant
Succeeded by
V. P. Singh
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office
10 May 2004 – 26 June 2012
Preceded by
Abul Hasnat Khan
Succeeded by
Abhijit Mukherjee
Constituency
Jangipur
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
In office
1 January 1969 – 1 February 2002
Constituency
Various
Personal details
Born
Pranab Kumar Mukherjee
11 December 1935
Mirati, Bengal Presidency, British India
(present-day Birbhum district, West Bengal, India)
Died
31 August 2020 (aged 84)
New Delhi, India
Cause of death
COVID‑19
Nationality
Indian
Political party
Independent (2012–2020)
Other political
affiliations
Indian National Congress (1971–1986; 1989–2012)
Rashtriya Samajwadi Congress (1986–1989)
Bangla Congress (1966–1971)
Spouse(s)
Suvra Mukherjee
(m. 1957; died 2015)
Children
3 including,
Sharmistha Mukherjee
Abhijit Mukherjee
Alma mater
University of Calcutta (B.A., M.A., LL.B.)
Awards
Bharat Ratna (2019)[1]
Padma Vibhushan (2008)
Website
Official website
Nickname(s)
Pranab Da
Poltuda[2]
Mukherjee got his break in politics in 1969 when the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi helped him get elected to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Parliament of India, on a Congress ticket.[11] Following a meteoric rise, he became one of Gandhi's most trusted lieutenants and a minister in her cabinet in 1973. Mukherjee's service in a number of ministerial capacities culminated in his first stint as Finance Minister of India in 1982–84. He was also the Leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha from 1980 to 1985.[12]
Mukherjee was sidelined from Congress during the premiership of Rajiv Gandhi. Mukherjee had viewed himself and not the inexperienced Rajiv, as the rightful successor to Indira following her assassination in 1984. Mukherjee lost out in the ensuing power struggle. He formed his own party, the Rashtriya Samajwadi Congress, which merged with Congress in 1989 after reaching a consensus with Rajiv Gandhi.[13] After Rajiv Gandhi's assassination in 1991, Mukherjee's political career was revived when Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao appointed him Planning Commission head in 1991 and foreign minister in 1995. Following this, as elder statesman of Congress, Mukherjee was the principal architect of Sonia Gandhi's ascent to the party's presidency in 1998.[14]
When the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) came to power in 2004, Mukherjee won a Lok Sabha (the popularly elected lower house of Parliament) seat for the first time. From then until his resignation in 2012, he held a number of key cabinet portfolios in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government – Defence (2004–06), External Affairs (2006–09), and Finance (2009–12) – apart from heading several Groups of Ministers (GoMs) and being Leader of the House in the Lok Sabha.[15] After securing the UPA's nomination for the country's presidency in July 2012, Mukherjee comfortably defeated P. A. Sangma in the race to the Rashtrapati Bhavan (the Indian presidential residence), winning 70 percent of the electoral-college vote.[16]
