Pranab Mukherjee

Pranab Mukherjee

                                      

Tenure - 25 July 2012 - 25 July 2017

Pranav Kumar Mukherjee (born December 11, 1935, West Bengal) has been the thirteenth President of India. He is a senior leader of the Indian National Congress. The United Progressive Alliance led by the Indian National Congress declared them their candidate. In direct competition he won his antagonist PA. Defeated Sangma. He took oath of office and secrecy as the thirteenth President of India on July 25, 2012. Pranab Mukherjee has written the book 'The Coalition Years: 1996-2012'.

Early life

Pranab Mukherjee was born in a Brahmin family of Mirati village near Kirnahar town in Birbhum district of West Bengal, where Kamada Kinkar Mukherjee and Rajlakshmi Mukherjee came here. With his father being active in the Congress party from 1920, he was a member of the Legislative Council in West Bengal from 1952 to 64 and was the President of the Virbhum (West Bengal) District Congress Committee. His father was a respected freedom fighter, who also spent more than 10 years in jail, as a result of the caliphate of British rule. Pranab Mukherjee got education at Suri Vidyasagar College, Suri (Birbhum), which was then affiliated to the University of Calcutta at that time.

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He has secured a degree in law along with a postgraduate in History and Political Science from the University of Calcutta. He has also been a lawyer and college professor. He also receives honorary D.Litt degree. He first started his career as a college professor and later as a journalist. He has also worked in the Bangla Publications Institute Deser Dak (Prayer of Motherland). Pranab Mukherjee was also the President of the Bengali Sahitya Parishad and also the President of the All India Bang Literary Conference.

political career

Pranab Mukherjee's parliamentary career is nearly five decades old, which began in 1969 as the Rajya Sabha member of the Congress Party (Upper House). He was re-elected in 1975, 1981, 1993 and 1999. In 1973, he joined the ministry as the Central Deputy Minister of Industrial Development Department.

Pranab Mukherjee was elected to several cabinet positions from 1982 to 1984 and became the Finance Minister of India in 1984. In 1984, he was rated as the world's best finance minister in a survey of Euromoney magazine. His tenure remained remarkable for not paying the final installment of US $ 1.1 billion of the IMF loan of India. During the tenure of Pranav as Finance Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh was the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. After the Lok Sabha election after the assassination of Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi's supporters were victims of the conspiracy of the congregation, which did not allow them to join the Manchremandal. For some time he was fired from the Congress party. During that time, he formed his political party National Socialist Congress, but after compromising Rajiv Gandhi in 1989, he merged his party with the Congress Party. His political career got revived when P.V. Narasimha Rao first decided to appoint him as Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission and later as a Central Cabinet Minister. He served as the Foreign Minister for the first time in Rao's Cabinet from 1995 to 1996. In 1997, he was elected an excellent parliamentarian.

Since 1985, he is also the President of the Congress of West Bengal State unit. In 2004, when Congress formed the government as the leader of coalition government, then Congress Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was just a Rajya Sabha MP. Therefore Pranab Mukherjee, who won the first Lok Sabha election from Jangipur (Lok Sabha constituency), was made the Leader of the House in the Lok Sabha. He also has the distinction of being the minister of various important ministries including Defense, Finance, Foreign Affairs, Revenue, Shipping, Transportation, Communication, Economic Affairs, Commerce and Industry. He has been the leader of the Congress Parliamentary Party and the Congress Legislature Party, which includes all Congress MPs and MLAs of the country. Apart from this, he was also the central finance minister in the Lok Sabha in the Council of Ministers, Prime Minister of the Congress-led Government of Bengal, President of the Bengal Pradesh Congress Party, and in the Council of Ministers of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Prior to the Lok Sabha elections, when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh conducted his own surgery, despite being the Union Minister in Pranav Dao's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the chairman of the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs and the Additional Charge of the Central Minister in the Finance Ministry played an important role in the operation of the ministry. are.

International role

Mukherjee and US Foreign Secretary Condoleezza Rice signed the Section 123 Agreement on October 10, 2008. He was also a member of the International Monetary Fund's World Bank, Asian Development Bank and the African Development Bank's Administrator Board. In 1984, he chaired the meeting of the Group-24 of the IMF and the World Bank. Between May and November 1995, he presided over the SAARC Manifesto Conference.

Foreign Minister

On October 24, 2006, when he was appointed as the Foreign Minister of India, he was replaced by A.K. Antony took it In the name of Pranab Mukherjee, once considered for honorable position like the Indian President. But in the Union Cabinet, his name was withdrawn due to his inevitable contribution to practically. In the current heritage of Mukherjee, despite the successful signing of the Indo-US on the civil nuclear agreement with the US government and the signing of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, the signature signed with the nuclear supplier group to participate in civil nuclear trade. In 2007, he was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honor.

Finance Minister

Mukherjee became the finance minister of India in the second government of Manmohan Singh. He had already worked in this post in the 1980s also. On July 6, 2009, he presented the government's annual budget. In this budget, he announced a number of tax reforms, including the frustrating Fringe Benefit Tax and Commodities Transaction tax. He declared that the condition of the Finance Ministry is not good enough to run the work without applying the goods and services tax. His argument was appreciated by many important corporate officials and economists. Pranav provided adequate funds for social sector schemes like National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, Girls' Literacy and Health. Apart from this, he also expanded the infrastructure projects like National Highway Development Program, expansion of power generation and infrastructure programs like Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. However, many people expressed concern about the continued fiscal deficit after 1991, but Mukherjee said that expansion in government spending is only temporary and the government is fully committed to the principle of financial foresight.

Respect and Specificity

According to a survey from Eurumani, published from New York, in 1984, Pranab Mukherjee was one of the five best financial thinkers in the world.

He got the Best Parliamentarian Award in 1997.

National and internally, his leadership was considered as iron in the Finance Ministry and other financial institutions. He is known for being the important person in the country's economic policies for a long time. Under his leadership, India earned the distinction of not taking the last installment of the International Monetary Fund's loan of $ 1.1 billion. He is considered a first-rate minister and during the absence of the Prime Minister during 1980-1985, he chaired the meetings of the Central Council.

During 2008, he was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award for his contribution in public affairs.

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