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Pranab Kumar Mukherjee born 11 December 1935 is the
president-election and would be sworn in as the 13th President of India on 25 July 2012 at 11:30 AM He was an
Indian statesman and a senior leader of the
Indian National Congress and had held important ministerial portfolios in the government of
India during his political career. Mukherjee was the
UPA nominee in the
2012 presidential election.Pranab Mukherjee began his political career with the Indian National Congress in 1969 under Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi. He became one of her top lieutenants and was often described as her "man for all seasons". His rise was meteoric in the early phase of his career and he became a cabinet minister in Indira Gandhi's government in 1973. Mukherjee rose through a series of cabinet posts to become the
Finance Minister of Indiafrom 1982 to 1984. Mukherjee was
Leader of the House in the
Rajya Sabha from 1980 to 1985.
Mukherjee was sidelined from the Congress during the
Rajiv Gandhi era. He had viewed himself, and not the rookie Rajiv Gandhi, as the rightful successor to Indira Gandhi. Mukherjee lost out in the ensuing power struggle. He formed his own political party, the
Rashtriya Samajwadi Congress, but later merged it with Congress in 1989 after reaching a political compromise with Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Mukherjee's political career revived when Prime Minister
Narasimha Rao chose to appoint him as
Deputy Chairperson of the Planning Commission and subsequently as a union cabinet minister in the 1990s. He served as the
Minister of External Affairs (Foreign Minister) from 1995 to 1996 in Rao's cabinet.
Mukherjee was the principal architect of
Sonia Gandhi's entry into Indian politics in the 1990s. He became the elder statesman of the Congress party during this period. Mukherjee was Leader of the House in the
Lok Sabha from 2004 to 2012. He served as the
Minister of Defence from 2004 to 2006 and again served as the Minister of External Affairs from 2006 to 2009. He was the Finance Minister from 2009 to 2012 in the government of Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh.
Mukherjee has received several accolades and honors. In 1984, he was rated as the best Finance Minister in the World according to a survey of
Euromoney magazine.In 2010, he was awarded "Finance Minister of the Year for Asia" by Emerging Markets, the daily newspaper of record for the
World Bank and the
IMF. In December 2010,
The Bankerrecognised him as the "Finance Minister of the Year." The government of India honored him with the
Padma Vibhushan, the second highest civilian award of India, in 2008.