Former President, Dr. Pranab Mukherjee  is an Indian politician who served from 2012 until 2017 as the 13th Indian President felicitated with Bharat Ratna, the country’s highest civilian award in 2019 by President Ram Nath Kobind.

• In 1963, he worked as a professor and taught Political Science at the Vidyanagar College in South 24 Paraganas, West Bengal.

• He had also worked as a journalist with a local Bengali newspaper, named Desher Dak.

• Prime Minister Indira Gandhi introduced him to politics in 1969 and guided him to become a member of the Rajya Sabha.

• He is compulsive workaholic.

• The most versatile minister of India ever had. He is the only minister to have handled four major ministries, defence, commerce, foreign and finance.

• In 1984, Mukherjee was voted the Best Finance Minister in the World by Euromoney magazine and as the Finance Minister presented seven budgets.

• After the demise of Indira Gandhi, Mukherjee quit the Congress and formed his own political party, the Rashtriya Samajwadi Party.

• He is said to keep a diary for the last 40 years. The writings will be published posthumously, following the advice of Mukherjee himself

• The President made history when he taught secondary students of a government school at the President’s Estate in New Delhi about the political history of India on the occasion of Teacher’s Day.