Pranab Mukherjee
Pranab Mukherjee
Pranab Kumar Mukherjeeis the 13th and current President of India, in office since July 2012. In a political career spanning six decades, Mukherjee was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and occupied several ministerial portfolios in the Government of India. Prior to his election as President, Mukherjee was Union Finance Minister from 2009 to 2012, and the Congress party's top troubleshooter...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 December 1935
CityMirati, India
CountryIndia
We are all equal children before our mother; and India asks each one of us, in whatsoever role we play in the complex drama of nation-building, to do our duty with integrity, commitment and unflinching loyalty to the values enshrined in our Constitution.
There is prima facie evidence of violation of clauses relating to use of undue influence and agents/agency commission, as contained in the contracts of Anti-Material Rifles (AMR) signed in 2002,
There are actually three French companies, one of them in the public sector, from which we are buying the submarines and not two.
Every political party has the right to demonstrate, but at the same time I have requested the state government to provide requisite security,
Militants have made about five infiltration attempts since the October 8 earthquake, including two on a single day,
We are not apologetic of appointing a committee to look into the economic, social, education and cultural conditions of the single largest minority group.
Redeployment is a regular exercise undertaken after a review of the situation in the state. Last year we reduced troops voluntarily.
Some of them wanted to take advantage of the disturbed situation.
It is not withdrawal but redeployment of forces from Jammu and Kashmir to the northeast as the violence level has come down.
It is open. It will remain secular and apolitical.
The armed forces are professional, apolitical, and secular and the most disciplined force the country has today... We would not like to include (the armed forces) in such a type of survey, (but) in the case of other departments and ministries such a study will continue.
Pakistan's point of view is when we have agreed to withdraw ... what is the relevance (of this) after the withdrawal agreement is signed,
We have agreed. They (Pakistan) have agreed to withdraw troops from the present positions. There is no two opinion about it, both sides have agreed
We are keeping a close watch as Nepal is of vital interest to India.