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13 MAY1905-11 FEB 1977 FAKHRUDDIN ALI AHMED 

Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

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Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
ফখৰুদ্দিন আলি আহমেদ
فخرودین علی احمد
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5th President of India
In office
24 August 1974 – 11 February 1977
Prime MinisterIndira Gandhi
Vice PresidentBasappa Danappa Jatti
Preceded byV. V. Giri
Succeeded byBasappa Danappa Jatti (Acting)
Personal details
Born13 May 1905
Old Delhi, Delhi, Punjab Province, British India
Died11 February 1977 (aged 71)
New Delhi, Delhi, India
Political partyIndian National Congress
Spouse(s)Begum Abida Ahmed
Children3
Alma materSt Catharine's College, Cambridge
St. Stephen's College, Delhi
ProfessionLawyer
ReligionIslam
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (Assamese: ফখৰুদ্দিন আলি আহমেদ, Urdu: فخرودین علی احمد, About this sound pronunciation (help·info) (13 May 1905 – 11 February 1977) was the fifth President of India from 1974 to 1977.[1][2]

Early life and background[edit]

Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed was born on 13 May 1905, at the Hauz Qazi area of Old Delhi, India.[2] His father, Col. Zalnur Ali Ahmed, was the first Assamese person to have an M.D. (Doctor of Medicine) degree and also the first one from North-East India.[3] His mother was a daughter of the Nawab of Loharu.[4] Ahmed's grandfather, Khaliluddin Ali Ahmed, was from Kacharighat near Golaghat, Assam, and hailed from a well-known Assamese Muslim family.[5]
Ahmed was educated at the Government High School in Gonda district, Uttar Pradesh, and matriculated from the Delhi Government High School. He 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.[2][4]

Political years[edit]

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 in the Quit India movement and sentenced to 3 1/2 years' imprisonment.[2] He was a member of the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee from 1936 and of AICC from 1947 to 74, and remained the Minister of Finance, Revenue and labour in the 1938 Gopinath BordoloiMinistry.
After Independence he was elected to the Rajya Sabha (1952–1953) and thereafter 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).
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, Cooperation, Education, Industrial Development and Company Laws.

Presidency[edit]

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 known to have issued the proclamation of emergency by signing the papers at midnight after a meeting with Indira Gandhi the same day. He used his constitutional authority as head of state to allow her to rule by decree once the Emergency in India was proclaimed in 1975.
He is well known among Indian diplomats for his visit to Sudan in 1975.[clarification needed][citation needed] 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. He was 72. Today his grave lies right across the Parliament of India next to the Sunhari Masjid, at Sansad Chowk, in New Delhi.

Honors[edit]

He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Pristina, in Kosovo, in 1975, during his visit to Yugoslavia.
He was elected President of the Assam Football Association and the Assam Cricket Association for several terms; he was also the Vice-President of the Assam Sports Council.
In April 1967, he was elected President of the All India Cricket Association. He was a member of the Delhi Golf Club and the Delhi Gymkhana Club from 1961. In 1942 he was arrested in the Quit India movement and sentenced to 3 1/2 years' imprisonment.[2] He was a member of the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee from 1936 and of AICC from 1947 to 74, and remained the Minister of Finance, Revenue and labour in the 1938 Gopinath Bordoloi Ministry and he is the first president to establish the industrial act
In his honor a medical college Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Medical College has been named after him at Barpeta Assam.

Further reading[edit]

  • Speeches of President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India, 1980.
  • My eleven years with Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, by F. A. A. Rehmaney. S. Chand, 1979.
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    Born: May 13, 1905, Delhi
    Died: February 11, 1977, New Delhi
    Succeeded by: B. D. Jatti
    Spouse: Begum Abida Ahmed (m. 1945–1977)
    Previous office: President of India (1974–1977)
    Education: St. Stephen's College, Delhi, St Catharine's College, Cambridge
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