{"id":42362,"date":"2016-12-11T05:32:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T05:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=42362"},"modified":"2016-12-11T05:32:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T05:32:03","slug":"president-pranab-turns-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/president-pranab-turns-81\/","title":{"rendered":"President Pranab turns 81"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Pranab Mukherjee celebrated his 81st birthday on Sunday, December 11.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On his birthday he will attend a number of programmes, including release of three books and launch of a campaign organised by Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi in which about 5,000 children will participate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Born at Mirati in West Bengal on December 11, 1935, Mukherjee assumed office as the 13th President of India on July 25, 2012, crowning a political career of over five decades of exemplary service to the nation in government as well as Parliament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42363\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/pranab-mukherjee_650x400_81428795253.jpg\" alt=\"President Pranab turns 81\" width=\"650\" height=\"381\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On his 81st birthday we bring you some lesser known facts about him:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apart from being a diplomat, Mukherjee was once a professor andtaught Political Science at the Vidyanagar College in South 24 Paraganas, West Bengal, in 1963.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He had also worked as a journalist with \u2018Desher Dak\u2019, a local Bengali newspaper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was introduced to politics in 1969 by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who guided him to become a member at the Rajya Sabha.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42364\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/527678-modi-and-pranab.jpg\" alt=\"President Pranab turns 81\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/527678-modi-and-pranab.jpg 640w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/527678-modi-and-pranab-500x280.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mukherjee is said to be the only minister to have handled four major ministries, defence, commerce, foreign and finance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was voted the Best Finance Minister in the World by Euromoney magazine in 1984. He is the only Finance Minister to have presented seven budgets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the demise of Indira Gandhi, Mukherjee quit the Congress and formed his own political party, the Rashtriya Samajwadi Party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is the only Finance Minister to serve the post both, in the Pre-Liberisation and Post-Liberisation eras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Pranab Mukherjee celebrated his 81st birthday on Sunday, December 11. On his birthday he will attend a number of programmes, including release of three books and launch of a campaign organised by Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi in which about 5,000 children will participate. Born at Mirati in West Bengal on December 11, 1935, Mukherjee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[19995,19989,19994,12502,10667,19991,266,19990,40,10974,4175,507,592,19996,19992,19993],"class_list":["post-42362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-bengali-newspaper","tag-celebrated-81st-birthday","tag-desher-dak","tag-finance-minister","tag-journalist","tag-mirati-in-west-bengal","tag-modi","tag-nobel-laureate-kailash-satyarthi","tag-parliament","tag-political","tag-pranab-mukherjee","tag-president","tag-rajya-sabha","tag-rashtriya-samajwadi-party","tag-south-24-paraganas","tag-vidyanagar-college"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/pranab-mukharjee.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}