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PRATIBHA PATIL
Pratibha Devising Patil was born on 19 December 1934 is an Indian politician
who served as the 12th president of India from 2007 to
2012. A member of the Indian national congress, Patil is the only
women to hold the office. She previously served as the Governor
of Rajasthan from 2004 to 2007.The BBC has described Patil's political career prior to
assuming presidential office as "long and largely low-key". In
1962, at the age of 27, she was elected to the Maharashtra
legislative assembly for the Jalgaon
Constituency. Thereafter she
won in the Muktainagar
(formerly Edlabad) constituency on four consecutive occasions between 1967 and
1985, before becoming a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha between 1985 and 1990.
In the 1991 election for the 10TH Lok Sabha she was elected as a Member of Parliament
representing the Amravati
Constituency. A period of retirement from
politics followed later in that decade. Patil
had held various Cabinet portfolios during her period in the Maharashtra
Legislative Assembly and she had also held official positions while in both the
Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha. In addition, she had been for some years the
president of the Maharashtra Pradesh congress committee and also held
office as Director of the National Federation of Urban Co-operative Banks and
Credit Societies and as a Member of the Governing Council of the National
Co-operative Union of India. On 8 November 2004 she was appointed as the 24th
Governor of Rajasthan, the first woman to hold that office and according to the BBC was
"a low-profile" incumbent. Patil set
up Vidya Bharati Shikshan Prasarak Mandal, an educational institute which runs
a chain of schools and colleges in Amravati, Jalgaon, pune and Mumbai. She also
set up Sharm Sadhna Trust which runs hostels for working women in New Delhi,
Mumbai and Pune; and an engineering college for rural students in Jalgaon
district. She also co-founded a cooperative sugar factory known as sant Muktabai
sahakari Sakhar Karkhana at Muktainagar.
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