Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (Former President of India) 14/05/2019 – Posted in: Press Information Bureau
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
(President’s Secretariat)
WHAT
The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, paid homage to Shri Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, former President of India on his Birth Anniversary at Rashtrapati Bhavan today (May 13, 2019).
FAKHRUDDIN ALI AHMED
- Ali Ahmed was the fifth President of India from 1974 to 1977 and also the second President of the country to die in office after Zakir Hussain.
- He issued the proclamation of emergency in 1975 by signing the papers after a meeting with Indira Gandhi the same day.
- Ali Ahmed participated in the freedom struggle of India with an active role in the Quit India Movement against the British rule in 1942.
EARLY LIFE
- He studied at Cambridge University’s Catherine College and became barrister from the Inner Temple of London.
- He could not complete his parents’ dream of appearing for ICS examination due to severe bout of illness.
- When he returned to India, he began practicing law in the Lahore High Court in 1928.
- In 1931 to become a primary member of the Congress.
- As a student in England he had befriended Jawaharlal Nehru whose progressive ideas had influenced him, and who became his close friend and mentor.
- Later in life he had to contend with being called “communal” because he tried to attract young Muslims who had been educated at Aligarh Muslim University – a campus then perceived to be influenced by the communal ideas of the Muslim League – to the Congress.
Source: PIB
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