- Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is the 13th and current President of India, in office since July 2012
| Born: | 11 December 1935 Comment | | How old is Pranab Mukherjee in 2024? / Age: | 88 years
| | Zodiac sign: | Sagittarius |
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Pranab Mukherjee facts
- In a political career spanning six decades, Mukherjee was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and occupied several ministerial portfolios in the Government of India
- Prior to his election as President, Mukherjee was Union Finance Minister from 2009 to 2012, and the Congress party's top troubleshooter
- Mukherjee got his break in politics in 1969 when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi helped him get elected to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Parliament, on a Congress ticket
- Following a meteoric rise, he became one of Indira Gandhi's most trusted lieutenants, and a minister in her cabinet by 1973
- During the controversial Internal Emergency of 1975–77, he was accused (like several other Congress leaders) of committing gross excesses
- Mukherjee's service in a number of ministerial capacities culminated in his first stint as finance minister in 1982–84
- Mukherjee was also Leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha from 1980 to 1985
- Mukherjee was sidelined from the Congress during the premiership of Rajiv Gandhi, Indira's son
- 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
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