Pranab Mukherjee

Born to a freedom fighters' family Mr. Pranab Mukherjee scaled up his political career to the pinnacle of a democracy. He earned an M.A and LL.B degrees from University of Calcutta and started his professional career as an upper divisional clerk in the office of Deputy Accountant General in Calcutta. In 1963 his career took a turn and Pranab Da became the lecturer of political science in Vidyasagar college in Kolkata.
He started his political career as a Bangla Congress leader and entered Rajyasabha, the upper house of Indian parliament in the year 1969, later recognized by then prime minister Indira Gandhi and inducted into congress. For some time after Indira Gandhi's death, he parted his way from the Indian National Congress and boasted his own party but later came back and always been a crisis manager for the congress party and Dr. Manmohan Singh led UPA 1 and UPA 2 governments. He worked as the cabinet ministers of top notch portfolio in govt of India and chaired many parliamentary committee before taking the office of President Of India on 25 July 2012. After a successful presidential tenure, Pranab Da was living a retired life.
In year 2020 when the Coronavirus pandemic hit the world and India as well, it unfortunately infected the former president of India also. After diagnosed positive for Covid 19, Mr. Mukherjee was treated at the R & R Army hospitals in Delhi for the septic shock for over a week, remained on life support systems but his health couldn't be revived and on 31 August 2020 he breathed his last. He is survived by 3 children, daughter Sharmishta Mukherjee, and sons, Abhijeet Mukherjee and Indrajeet Mukherjee. Pranab Mukherjee's wife Suvra Mukherjee went to her heavenly abode in the year 2015.