Ms. Pratibha Devising Patil, the 12th President of Republic of India is the first Female President of India.Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil was born on December 19, 1934 in Nadgaon village of Jalgaon District, Maharashtra. With the swearing in of Ms. Patil as the first citizen of India, the male bastion in the Rashtrapti Bhawan has also been successfully stormed.
Pratibha took her school education from R.R. School and college education from Moolje Jaitha College, Jalgaon. She obtained her law degree from the Government Law College, Mumbai. She excelled during her college days, in table tennis to the extent of winning medals in various inter-college tournaments. In 1962, she was crowned 'College Queen' of M.J. College. The same year she won the assembly election she contested in an INC ticket.
She married Devisingh Ramsingh Shekhwat at the age of 31, on July 7th, 1965 after she got a perfect match. Devisingh was a Rajput, whose family had migrated from Rajasthan to Jalgaon. Since she was already popular in Maharashtra politics, she decided not to adopt her husband's surname. As Devisingh was the ex-Mayor of Amaravati, she got the support of her husband in politics. The couple have a song and a daughter.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, from whom she took the charge of President's office was the most popular President of India. so question arises that whether Pratibha Patil would fulfill the anticipation of people by touching the level of Dr. Kalam? It would be said in answer that seeing her old records as Governor of Rajasthan, when she showed the courage of rejecting to sing the "Rajasthan Religious Freedom Bill 2006", it seems she will not prove herself as a rubber stamp.
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