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At the age of 84, he fell into a coma from septic shock due to a lung infection. His colorful political career came to an end on Monday at the Army Research and Referral Hospital in Delhi.
The wisdom, knowledge, skill and dedication of this exceptional politician, who has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Defense, Trade and Finance in various governments of India, can be highly praised by politicians of dissenting opinions and philosophies, which justifies his acquisition of the Bharat Ratna.
This leader of the West Bengal Congress stood by in 1971 and united the people of Bengal in a bond of gratitude. In recognition of this, in 2013 he was officially awarded the ‘Bangladesh Liberation War Award’.
Pranab Mukherjee was also involved in the marriage to Bangladesh. His wife Shuvra Ghosh was the daughter of Narail, Bangladesh. Pranab Mukherjee, the ‘son-in-law’ from Bangladesh, came to Bangladesh in 2013 and visited his father-in-law’s home in Bhadrabila, Narail.
Born on December 11, 1935 in the village of Mirati in the Birbhum district of West Bengal, Pranab’s father, Kamada Kinkar Mukherjee, also led a colorful political life. The leader of Congress had to be jailed several times for participating in the anti-British freedom struggle. Pranab’s mother’s name is Rajalakshmi Mukherjee.
Pranab Mukherjee (Paltu), a postgraduate in history and political science, also has a law degree from the University of Calcutta. Although he worked as a university professor and journalist for some time, he was interested in politics.
Paltu of Birbhum, loved by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, represented Congress at Rajya Sabha in 1989; For the next several decades, he was busy handling various responsibilities of the party, parliament, and government.
He was treasurer of the All India Congress from 1969 to 1969. In 1965 he also became chairman of the West Bengal Provincial Committee. Once expelled from the party, he returned in 1989.
In August 2000, Fer became president of the Provincial Congress, a position he held for a decade. He also served as a member of the Congress Executive Committee for two terms, 198-198 and 1996-2012.
In 1972, he became Minister of Finance for the first time. At the time, this Indira Gandhi cabinet member was also the leader of Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Parliament, from 1980 to 1985. His role in the formation of the Regional Rural Bank of India, Exim Bank, National Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development was also undeniable.
Pranab served as Vice Chairman of the Planning Commission of India from 1991 to 1996, Minister of Commerce from 1993 to 1995, Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1995 to 1996, Minister of Defense from 2004 to 2008 and Minister of Foreign Affairs of India from 2008 to 2009.
The leader of Congress, who served as Finance Minister for three years, from 2009 to 2012, was the leader of the Lok Sabha for the next six years starting in 2004.
Pranab, a five-time member of the Rajya Sabha and a two-time member of the Lok Sabha, resigned from the party in June 2012 before the presidential elections. His term as the thirteenth president of India began the following month.
Widely known in the international arena, the Bengali politician was also a member of the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the African Development Bank.
The Commonwealth Finance Ministers Conference in 1972, 1983 and 1984, the UN General Assembly in 1994, 1995, 2005 and 2006, the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Auckland, New Zealand in 1995, the Conference of Foreign Ministers of the Non-Aligned Movement in Colombo the same year He led the Indian delegation to the event.
Pranab received India’s second highest civil award, the Padma Bhushan, in 2006. He was also awarded the Best Member of Parliament in 1997 and the Best Administrator in India in 2011. In 2019, Pranab received the Bharat Ratna, the title highest civilian in India.
Pranab, who holds honorary degrees from the University of Dhaka, the University of Calcutta, the Russian Diplomatic Academy, the Belarusian State University, the University of Jordan, the Al-Quds University in Palestine, the Hebrew University of Israel and the University of Kathmandu in Nepal, has traveled to almost every country except a few. Exist.
In a 1984 poll in New York-based Euro Money magazine, Pranab was named one of the top five finance ministers in the world. Emerging Markets Journal named him the best finance minister in Asia in 2010.
The book, written by the politician, whose term ended in July 2016, includes Beyond Survival: Emerging Dimensions of the Indian Economy, Of the Track, Saga of struggle and sacrifice, Challenges before the nation, Thoughts and reflections. , The turbulent years 1980-1998 and the coalition years 1997-2012.
Involved in the Bangladesh bond
Pranab Mukherjee, leader of the West Bengal Congress, was a member of the Rajya Sabha during the War of Liberation. Like many politicians in India, he stood up for freedom-loving Bengalis.
He played an important role in shaping public opinion in favor of the independence of Bangladesh and against the oppression of Pakistanis by participating in the Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference in France in early September 1971.
At the same time, he visited the UK and Germany and participated in presenting the situation in Bangladesh to heads of government and parliamentarians.
During that time he visited refugee camps in Tripura, Assam and Meghalaya and coordinated with the local administration to improve the environment there.
Pranab Mukherjee has written a chapter on the Bangladesh liberation war in his autobiographical book ‘The Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years’.
Pranab, a member of Rajya Sabha in 1971, wrote: “During the budget session, I took the initiative to discuss the issue of Bangladesh at Rajya Sabha. I said that India should immediately recognize the expatriate Mujibnagar government of Bangladesh. I also reminded parliament that there are many cases in world history of interfering in such incidents.
On March 4, 2013, then-Bangladeshi President Zillur Rahman presented the ‘Bangladesh Liberation War Award’ to then-Indian President Pranab Mukherjee as a foreign friend who contributed to the Bangladesh liberation war.
Pranab Mukherjee also supported Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana after the murder of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the father of the nation of Bangladesh.
He wrote about that relationship in his book. He supported Sheikh Hasina as a friend even in difficult times in Bangladeshi politics.
“Sheikh Hasina is a close friend of my family and when I was foreign minister, India helped to pressure the interim government internationally to hold free and fair elections in Bangladesh,” Pranab wrote.
Describing the state of emergency during 2007-08, he wrote: “When some leaders of the Awami League were abandoning it (Sheikh Hasina), I reprimanded them and told them that it is unethical to abandon them when someone is in danger.”
Pranab Mukherjee’s wife, Rabindra Sangeet Shubhra, spent five years in their Bhadrabila village. After that, she studied first and second class at the local Chanchra primary school from various homes. Later she moved to India with members of her family.
Pranab married Shuvra Ghosh on July 13, 1956. At that time they were studying at the University of Calcutta. They have two sons, Abhijit Mukherjee and Surjit Mukherjee, and a daughter, Sharmistha Mukherjee.
In 2013, a couple of years before Shuvra Mukherjee’s death, Pranab’s wife came to Bhadrabila in Narail and visited her in-laws.
Before that, in 1996, Shuvra went to her father’s house with her daughter Sharmistha.
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