Pranab was naturally introduced to a Bengali family at Mirati, a town in the Bengal Presidency of British India (presently in Birbhum area, West Bengal). His dad, Kamada Kinkar Mukherjee was dynamic in the Indian autonomy development. His mom was Rajlakshmi Mukherjee. He had two kin: more seasoned sister Annapurna and more youthful sibling Piyush.
He went to the Suri Vidyasagar College in Suri (Birbhum), at that point partnered to the University of Calcutta. He in this way earned a MA degree in Political Science and History and an LLB degree; both from University of Calcutta
He was an upper-division Clerk in the Office of Deputy Accountant-General (Post and Telegraph) in Calcutta. In 1963, he turned into a lecturer(Assistant Professor) of Political Science at Vidyasagar College, Kolkata and he additionally functioned as a Journalist with the Desher Dak (Call of Motherland) before entering governmental issues.
Political career-
Mukherjee began his political vocation as an establishing individual from the Bangla Congress. In 1969, when he dealt with the fruitful Midnapore by-political race of a free applicant, V. K. Krishna Menon. He turned into an individual from Rajya Sabha (the upper place of the Indian parliament) in July 1969 on a Bangla Congress ticket. Then-Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, perceived Mukherjee's abilities and selected him to her gathering, the Indian National Congress.
He was delegated Union Deputy Minister of Industrial Development in Indira Gandhi's bureau in 1973. Mukherjee developed solid and rose through a progression of bureau presents on becoming Finance Minister from 1982 to 1984. As Finance Minister, Mukherjee marked the letter selecting Manmohan Singh as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. In 1979, Mukherjee became Deputy Leader of the INC in the Rajya Sabha, and in 1980 he was delegated Leader of the House.
Political party role-
Mukherjee was "all around regarded inside the gathering groups of friends." Media accounts depict him as having "notoriety for being a calculating government official with a sensational memory and an unerring endurance instinct."
Mukherjee turned into an individual from the Congress Working Committee on 27 January 1978. He additionally turned into an individual from the Central Parliamentary Board of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) that year. Mukherjee quickly held the situation of a financial officer of the AICC and the Congress party in 1978.
Mukherjee was delegated director of the Campaign Committee of AICC for leading National Elections to Parliament in 1984, 1991, 1996, and 1998. He was executive of the Central Election Coordination Committee of the AICC from 28 June 1999 to 2012. He was designated to the Central Election Committee on 12 December 2001. Mukherjee was elected as General Secretary of the AICC in 1998. In 1997 Mukherjee was cast a ballot Outstanding Parliamentarian by the Indian Parliamentary Group.
Union Cabinet Minister-
Minister of Defence-
Manmohan Singh delegated Mukherjee as the Minister of Defense of India when the Congress Party indeed came to control in 2004. Mukherjee held the post until 2006. He extended co-activity with the United States during his residency. The Times of India wrote about the Wikileaks links discharge and noticed how the U.S. is brimming with acclaim for the "clueless initiative" of the Indian military. Mukherjee in June 2005 had inked the ten-year Indo-US Defense Framework bargain.
Minister of External Affairs-
Mukherjee was named the External Affairs Minister of India in 1995. Under his administration, India was made "Full Dialog Partner" of ASEAN as a major aspect of the Look East international strategy started by Narasimha Rao. Mukherjee left the situation in 1996. Mukherjee's subsequent term started in 2006. He managed the effective marking of the U.S.- India Civil Nuclear Agreement with the U.S. government and afterward with the Nuclear Suppliers Group, permitting India to take an interest in non-military personnel atomic exchange disdain of not having marked the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Minister of Commerce and Industry-
Mukherjee threefold filled in as the Commerce Minister of India. His first stretches were in the Indira Gandhi government from 1980 to 1982 and again in 1984. His third spell during the 1990s saw him contribute fundamentally to the exchanges which lead to the foundation of the World Trade Organization.
Minister of Finance-
Mukherjee's first stretch as the Finance pastor of India was during the Indira Gandhi government in 1982. He introduced his first yearly spending plan in 1982–83. Mukherjee's first term was noted for his work in improving the funds of the legislature and for effectively restoring the last portion of India's first IMF credit. Mukherjee marked the letter selecting Manmohan Singh as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India in 1982. Mukherjee was blamed for support rehearses in the Ambani–Wadia mechanical quarrels.
President Of India-
Mukherjee was named as the presidential competitor of the United Progressive Alliance on 15 June 2012 after extensive political interest. The races were booked to be directed on 19 July 2012 and the outcomes were relied upon to be declared on 22 July 2012. The chosen one of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) was P. A. Sangma. To document his designation for the presidential survey on 28 June, Mukherjee left the legislature on 26 June 2012.
Illness and death-
During the COVID-19 pandemic, on 10 August 2020, Mukherjee reported on Twitter that he had tried positive for COVID-19 preceding his medical procedure to eliminate blood coagulation in his mind. He was admitted to the medical clinic after coincidentally slipping and falling in his washroom. He was on a ventilator uphold and in basic condition at the Army's Research and Referral (R&R) medical clinic in Delhi.
On 13 August, the emergency clinic announced that Mukherjee was in a profound unconsciousness after he went through a mind medical procedure, nonetheless, his imperative boundaries stayed stable. On 19 August, the Army's Research and Referral emergency clinic said that the wellbeing state of Mukherjee had declined as he had built up lung contamination. On 25 August, his renal boundaries turned out to be "somewhat unsettled," with the condition exacerbating days after the fact.
Mukherjee passed on 31 August 2020, matured 84, which was affirmed by his child Abhijit Mukherjee through Twitter