Pratibha Patil

Patil then began to practice law at the Jalgaon District Court, while also taking interest in social issues such as improving the conditions faced by Indian women.She emerged as a compromise candidate after the left-wing parties of the alliance would not agree to the nomination of former Home Minister Shivraj Patil or Karan Singh.The BBC described the situation as "the latest casualty of the country's increasingly partisan politics and [it] highlights what is widely seen as an acute crisis of leadership".They also highlighted her time spent away from high-level politics and queried her belief in the supernatural, such as her claim to have received a message from Dada Lekhraj, a dead guru.[9] Another alleged that while a Member of Parliament for Amravati she diverted Rs 3.6 million from her MPLADS fund to a trust run by her husband.[21] The parliamentary affairs minister denied any wrongdoing on Patil's part and noted that the funds are used under MPLADS, by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.[31] Patil allegedly used public funds to build a retirement mansion on a 260,000 square feet (24,000 m2) plot of military land in Pune.[33] Patil set up Vidya Bharati Shikshan Prasarak Mandal, an educational institute which runs a chain of schools and colleges in Amravati, Jalgaon, Pune and Mumbai.She also set up Shram Sadhana Trust, which runs hostels for working women in New Delhi, Mumbai and Pune; and an engineering college for rural students in Jalgaon district.
The Chief Justice of India K. G. Balakrishnan administering the oath of the office of the President of India to Pratibha Patil at a swearing-in ceremony in the central hall of Parliament, in New Delhi.
President Patil addressing the Indians on the eve of Independence Day, 2007
President Patil and her husband with the Queen and Prince Philip at Windsor Castle , 2009
President of IndiaManmohan SinghVice PresidentMohammad Hamid AnsariA. P. J. Abdul KalamPranab MukherjeeGovernor of RajasthanVasundhara RajeMadan Lal KhuranaAkhlaqur Rahman KidwaiMember of ParliamentLok SabhaSudam DeshmukhAnantrao GudheAmravati, MaharashtraDeputy Chairman of the Rajya SabhaChairmanRamaswamy VenkataramanShankar Dayal SharmaM. M. JacobNajma HeptullaRajya SabhaMaharashtraMemberMaharashtra Legislative AssemblyEdlabadJalgaonNadgaonBombay PresidencyIndian National CongressDevisingh Ramsingh Shekhawat57, Congress Nagar, AmravatiAlma materUniversity of PoonaUniversity of Bombayfirst womanMarathiMooljee Jetha CollegePoona UniversityGovernment Law College, BombayRaosaheb ShekhawatJalgaon constituencyMuktainagar1991 elections10th Lok SabhaAmravati constituencyMaharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee2007 Indian presidential electionK. G. BalakrishnanUnited Progressive AllianceHome MinisterShivraj PatilKaran SinghNehru–Gandhi familySonia GandhiVishram Patil murder casefigureheadBhairon Singh ShekhawatBharatiya Janata PartyNational Democratic AllianceShiv SenaDada LekhrajAmravatiMPLADSComptroller and Auditor General of India12th PresidentPrince PhilipWindsor CastlecommutedMinistry of External AffairsMumbaiShram Sadhana TrustNew DelhiJalgaon districtSant Muktabai Sahakari Sakhar KarkhanaPratibha Mahila Sahakari BankReserve Bank of IndiaThe Indian ExpressMexicoOrder of the Aztec EagleThe HinduThe Times of IndiaWayback MachineAnant GudhePresidents of IndiaRajendra PrasadSarvepalli RadhakrishnanZakir HusainV. V. GiriFakhruddin Ali AhmedNeelam Sanjiva ReddyZail SinghK. R. NarayananPresidencyRam Nath KovindDroupadi MurmuMohammad HidayatullahB. D. JattiThings named after presidentsResidenceSpouseGovernors of RajasthanMan Singh IIGurmukh Nihal SinghSampurnanand Hukam Singh Jogendra SinghVedpal TyagiRaghukul TilakK. D. SharmaOm Prakash MehraVasantdada PatilSukhdev PrasadMilap Chand JainD. P. ChattopadhyayaSarup SinghMarri Chenna ReddyDhanik Lal MandalBali Ram BhagatDarbara SinghNavrang Lal TibrewalAnshuman SinghNirmal Chandra JainKailashpati MishraT. V. RajeswarShilendra Kumar SinghPrabha RauMargaret AlvaRam NaikKalyan SinghKalraj Mishra