Pranab Mukherjee Biography 
Pranab Kumar Mukherjee, the 13th President of India was born on 11th December 1935 in Mirati town in Birbhum district of West Bengal . From an ordinary position of a college professor, he worked his ways to become the Finance Minister of India. He was one of the members of the Congress Working Committee and a senior member of many Cabinet Committees.
His parents are Kamada Kinkar Mukherjee and Rajlakshmi Mukherjee. His father was a freedom fighter and an active member of Indian National Congress and served as the member of West Bengal Legislative Council from 1952 to 1964. Pranab Mukherjee married Suvra Mukherjee on 13th July 1957. He has two sons Abhijit and Indrajit and one daughter.
He after completing his master’s degree in history and political science, he got a degree in law from the University of Calcutta. He started his career as a professor and ended up as an able politician. The University of Wolverhampton awarded him honorary doctorate degree in 2011.
Pranab Mukherjee started his career as a parliamentarian in 1969 when he was elected as a member of Rajya Sabha by the Congress party. Then he was elected again in 1975, 1981, 1993 and 1999. He started his career as a deputy minister in 1973. He also served as the finance minister of India from 1982 to 1984. At that time he was rated as the best finance minister of the world by the Euromoney Magazine.
He did not have a place in the cabinet of Rajiv Gandhi and was pushed out of Congress for a brief time period. It was at that time he started his own political party named Rashtriya Samajwadi Congress but later he merged that party with Congress in the year 1989. The former prime minister of India, P.V. Narasimha Rao appointed him and deputy chairman of the planning commission and then as a union cabinet minister. This marked his reentry into the national level politics. From 1995 to 1996, he served as the Minister of External Affairs.
He held the position of the West Bengal state Congress from 1985 but he resigned his position in July 2010 paving road for the entry of younger generation. He had handled many high profile ministries namely defense, external affairs, finance, revenue, shipping, communication, economic affairs, industry and commerce.
He served as the finance minister of India in the cabinet of Manmohan Singh and submitted the Union budget of India for the years 2009, 2010 and 2011. He was honored with Padma Vibhushan Award in 2008 and Outstanding Parliamentarian Award in 1997. He was selected as the 13th President of India on 22rd July 2012.
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Updated: July 22, 2012
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