DR.Rajendra Prasad

                  Dr. Rajendra Prasad 

DR. Rajendra Prasad was born on  3 December 1884 . He was an indian politician who became the first President of India.He was one of the architects of the Indian Republic ,having served as the president of the Constituent Assembly and later as the first president of independent India.Prasad is the only president to have been elected twice for the office

During the independence movement, he fell his practice of law and joined the Congress Party, playing a prominent role in the indian Independence Movement Rajendra Prasad was a great scholar. It can be proved from the comment of an examiner who wrote on his answer sheet "examines better than examiner".A devoted student as well as a public activist , Prasad had formally joined the Indian National Congress way back in the year 1911.During the Lucknow Session of Indian National Congress held in 1916, he met Mahatma Gandh in 1920,he refired  from her lucrative career as a lawyer to join Gandhiji's Non-cooperation Movement. He was elected by the President of the indian National Congress during the Bombay session in October 1934 and again became the president when Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose resigned. In 1939 in The Quit India  Movement of 1942 he was imprisoned by the British for three years. He served as The President of India for twelve years from Jan 1950 to May 1962. He was later awarded the Bharat  Ratna, the nation's highest civilian  award . 

Dr. Rajendra Prasad was inspired to fight for India's freedom in his childhood by Japan's heroic successes in its war against Russia, a mighty European nation like Great Britain. Everyday he used to walk ten miles barefoot from his tiny village to the nearest railway station to buy a newspaper and read the breaking news of Japan-Russia War to his villagers.

DR. RAJENDRA PRASAD

By- Tanishq Deshmukh

 21 August 2022