Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Biography
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Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (13 May 1905 – 11
February 1977) was the fifth President of India from 1974 to 1977 and also the
2nd President of India to die in office.
Early life
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed was born on 13 May
1905 at the Hauz Qazi area of Old Delhi, India. His father, Col. Zalnur Ali
Ahmed, was the first indigenous Assamese person and the first indigenous person
from northeast India to have an M.D. (Doctor of Medicine) degree.
He married with an indigenous Assamese
Muslim girl named Begam Abida Ahmed of Assam. Ahmed attended St. Stephen's
College, Delhi, and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar
from the Inner Temple of London and began legal practice in the Lahore High
Court in 1928.
Political years
He met Jawaharlal Nehru in England in
1925. He joined the Indian National Congress and actively participated in the
Indian Freedom Movement. In 1942 he was arrested during the Quit India Movement
and sentenced to 3 1/2 years' imprisonment. He was a member of the Assam
Pradesh Congress Committee from 1936 and of AICC from 1947 to 1974, and
remained the Minister of Finance, Revenue and labour in 1938 Gopinath Bordoloi
Ministry.
After Independence he was elected to the
Rajya Sabha (1952–1953) and there after became Advocate-General of the Government
of Assam. He was elected on Congress ticket to the Assam Legislative Assembly
on two terms (1957–1962) and (1962–1967) from Jania constituency. Subsequently,
he was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Barpeta constituency, Assam in 1967
and again in 1971. In the Central Cabinet he was given important portfolios
relating to Food and Agriculture, Co-operation, Education, Industrial
Development and Company Laws.
Presidency
Chosen for the presidency by the Prime
Minister, Indira Gandhi, in 1974, and on 20 August 1974, he became the second
Muslim to be elected President of India.
He is well known among Indian diplomats
for his visit to Sudan in 1975.He was the second Indian president to die in
office, on 11 February 1977. His death occurred after he collapsed in his
office while preparing to attend his daily Namaz prayer. The cause of his death
was a heart attack. He was 72 then. Today his grave lies right across the
Parliament of India next to the Sunhari Masjid, at Sansad Chowk, in New Delhi.
Honours
He was awarded an honorary doctorate by
the University of Pristina, in Kosovo, in 1975, during his visit to Yugoslavia.
In his honour a medical college Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Medical College has been named after him at Barpeta Assam.
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