- Pranab Mukherjee Served as the 13thPresident of India from 2012 untill 2017.
- A veteran congressman, Pranab Mukherjee had held various key portfolios like Finance,Defenceand External Affairs as Union Minister.
- Pranab Mukherjee was born in a Bengali family.He earned an MA degree in Political Science and history and LL.B from the University of Calcutta.
- Before entering politics, he had worked as a journalist with a local Bengali newspaper, named ‘Desher Dak’.
- Mukherjee was introduced to politics in 1969 by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who guided him to become a member at the Rajya Sabha.
- In 1984, Mukherjee was voted the Best Finane Minister in the World by Euromoney magazine. He is the only finance minister to have presented seven budgets.
- After the demise of Indira Gandhi, Mukherjee quit the congress and formed his own political party, the Rashtriya Samajwadi Party.
- The party in 1989 merged with the congress after an agreement with Rajiv Gandhi.
- Holding the position of president, he has rejected 24 mercy please including that of Yakub Memon, Ajmal kasab, and Afzal Guru.
- Mukherjee has authored few books including Beyond Survival: Emerging Dimensions of India Economy (1984), Saga of Struggle and Sacrifice (1993), The Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years (2014).
