02 March,2010 10:54 AM IST | | Special Features
PRANAB Mukherjee is set to rule the headlines this week after declaring the annual budget. CS gives you some info on this Padma Vibhushan recipient:u00a0
>>u00a0He was born on December 11, 1935 in Mirati in the Birbhum district of West Bengal. Pranab's father, the late Kamada Kinkar Mukherjee was an Congress activist.u00a0
>>u00a0Pranab has an arts degree in history and political science as well as one in law. He began his career as a college teacher and later as a journalist. He wrote for a publication called Desher Dak (Call of the Motherland)
>>u00a0He began his career in the Rajya Sabha in 1969, and was re-elected in 1975, 1981, 1993 and 1999.u00a0
>>u00a0Pranab rose through a series of cabinet posts to become India's finance minister from 1982 to 1984. In 1984, he was rated as the best Finance Minister of the World according to a survey of Euromoney magazine.
>>u00a0In 1997, he was voted as the Outstanding Parliamentarian. He also has the distinction of holding high profile ministries like defence, external affairs, revenue, shipping, transport, communication, economic affairs and commerce and industry.u00a0
>>u00a0He is married to Surva Mukherjee and has two sons and a daughter. His hobbies are reading, gardening and music.
