25/07/2022
INDIA GETS FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT IN HISTORY
On this historic day, July 25th 2007, India gets its first female president. Pratibha Devisingh Patil, the politician, stayed in office as the head of state of the South Asian country for 5 years.
Pratibha Devisingh Was born 19 December 1934. She is an Indian politician and lawyer who served as the 12th president of India from 25 July 2007 to 25 July 2012.
She is a member of the Indian National Congress. She had previously served as the Governor of Rajasthan from 2004 to 2007.
Pratibha Devisingh Patil is the daughter of Narayan Rao Patil. She was born in the village of Nadgaon, in the British Raj Indian district of Jalgaon of Maharashtra, India.
She was educated initially at R. R. Vidyalaya, Jalgaon, and subsequently was awarded a master's degree in Political Science and Economics by Mooljee Jetha College, Jalgaon (then under Poona University), and then a Bachelor of Law degree by Government Law College, Bombay, affiliated to the University of Bombay (now University of Mumbai).
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.
Patil married Devisingh Ramsingh Shekhawat on 7 July 1965. The couple has a daughter, Jyoti Rathore and a son, Raosaheb Shekhawat, who is also a politician.
MORAL OF THE STORY:
Anything is possible when you put your mind to it , irrespective of your gender.