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President of India pays homage to  Pranab Mukherjee on his Birth Anniversary

PRANAB KUMAR MUKHERJEE

• 11 December 1935 – 31 August 2020
• Born in Mirati, a village in the Bengal Presidency of British India
• Senior leader in the Indian National Congress and occupied several ministerial portfolios in the Government of India
• Awarded India’s highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 2019
• Elected Rajya Sabha in 1969
• Finance Minister of India in 1982–84
• Union Finance Minister from 2009 to 2012
• Formed his own party, the Rashtriya Samajwadi Congress, which merged with Congress in 1989
• V. Narasimha Rao appointed him Planning Commission head in 1991 and foreign minister in 1995
• Principal architect of Sonia Gandhi’s ascent to the party’s presidency in 1998
• Won a Lok Sabha seat for the first time in 2004, Mukherjee
• 13 President of India
• In June 2018, Mukherjee became the first former President of India to address a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) even