Pratibha Patil received the ‘Order of the Aztec Eagle’ award from the Ambassador of Mexico to India, Melba Pria on Saturday, 1st June 2019. Ex-President Pratibha Patil conferred Mexico's highest civilian honour Dr Manmohan Singh was the Prime Minister throughout her tenure.Patil kindled even more controversies after the election. In 2008, she initiated the setting up of a Committee of Governors to study and make recommendations for the “socio-economic empowerment of women”. However, Patil did not serve the full term as a governor as on June 14, 2007, she was revealed to be the United Progressive Alliance’s (UPA) nominee for the 2007 Indian presidential election.Pratibha Patil wasn’t Congress’ first choice as a candidate but the left-leaning parties of UPA did not like initial options, former Home Minister Shivraj Patil and Karan Singh, put forward by Congress. Pratibha Patil is an Indian politician who served as the 12th President of the Republic of India. Patil has been an ardent advocate of conservation and sustainability of ecology for the common good of human kind.
She joined the Indian National Congress (INC) party and subsequently won the Jalgaon Assembly seat in 1962. After being awarded a master’s degree in the subjects, she attended Government Law College, Mumbai, affiliated to the University of Mumbai, and got a Bachelor of Law degree.She was equally active in sports throughout her student life.
Pratibha Devisingh Patil is an Indian politician who served as the 12th President of the Republic of India.
Smt. She was then personally handpicked by Congress supremo Sonia Gandhi herself despite Patil’s remark of not willing to be a “rubber-stamp president”.In the weeks leading up to the election, Patil faced several controversies, including accusations of shielding her brother and husband in connection of unrelated deaths of a teacher named Kisan Dhage and English professor Vishram Patil.
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Earlier, the late President S. Radhakrishna had been conferred this honour.Mexico's highest distinction for foreigners is in recognition of their outstanding services to the Mexican nation or humanity, significant contributions to strengthening the bilateral relations between Mexico and other countries, said an official spokesperson.The royal eagle is Mexico's national animal, sacred to the ancient Aztecs and it is present on the National Emblem of the Mexican flag. She played table tennis, even winning several shields at numerous inter-collegiate tournaments.Pratibha Patil began her professional career as a lawyer at the Jalgaon District Court. Shekhawat has also been a member of INC party for the major part of his life and was elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for the Amravati constituency in 1985.They have two children together, daughter Jyoti Rathore and son Raosaheb Shekhawat (born Rajendra Singh Shekhawat), who has followed his parents’ footsteps to become a politician.https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/pratibha-patil-13929.php
She commuted a record 35 petitioners’ death sentences to life imprisonment, gave her full and unconditional support in abolishing abhorrent practices such as child marriage, addiction, and social suppression of women, and quietly used the power of her office to bring the agrarian crisis that was plaguing the Indian countryside into attention.Over the years, Pratibha Patil has made various investments in the education sector. She considers education to be primary index of nation’s advancement and has maintained that “Education is perceived by us in India, as a parameter of the human development index essential for developing the nation, and for making every Indian individual, an invaluable asset contributing to the country’s economic development.”During her political career, Smt. Patil diligently served as the Leader of Opposition from July 1979 to February 1980.Her first foray into national politics was as a Rajya Sabha member.
From 1986 to 1988, she was the deputy chairperson of Rajya Sabha as well as the chairperson of the Business Advisory Committee and the Committee of Privileges.In the 1991 general elections, she contested from and won the Amravati Lok Sabha constituency and a year later, became the Chairperson of Lok Sabha House Committee.Besides these public offices, she also served as the president of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee, the director of the National Federation of Urban Co-operative Banks and Credit Societies, and a member of the Governing Council of the National Co-operative Union of India.She went into a self-imposed retirement from politics in the late 1990s. Ex-President Pratibha Patil conferred Mexico's highest civilian honour Former President Patil is only the second Indian head of state to get this award.
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