Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

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Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed ( Assamese ফখৰুদ্দিন আলি আহমেদ pronunciation ? / I ; * May 13, 1905 in Delhi , † February 11, 1977 in New Delhi ) was an Indian politician and from 1974 to 1977 President of the Republic of India . Audio file / audio sample

Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed was born in Delhi as the son of an Army doctor from Assam . He came from a Muslim family. After finishing school in India, he studied law at Cambridge University and graduated in 1927. In Cambridge he also met Jawaharlal Nehru . He returned to India and initially worked as a lawyer at the Lahore High Court . In 1935 he was elected to the Parliament of Assam. As Finance Minister of Assam in 1938 he was responsible for radical tax measures. In 1939 he was arrested for his political activities for the Indian National Congress and served a total of four and a half years in prison until April 1945.

Ahmed was appointed Assam Attorney General in 1946 and served in that office for six years. After a term in office in the Union parliament, he was again politically active in Assam. In January 1966, Indira Gandhi appointed him to her first cabinet. He has held various ministerial offices, irrigation and energy, education, industrial development and agriculture. On 17 August 1974, he became the fifth President of India elected . He died in office.

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  1. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (1905-1977). Research Reference and Training Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, accessed July 12, 2014 .