The ongoing pandemic has affected the crores of people so far and has taken many innocent lives. Even the celebrities haven’t escaped from this deadly virus as in the previous month, the whole family of the Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan got positive and shocked the nation. Recently Amit Shah, the minister of home affairs got in the news for being COVID positive. When the nation got relieved knowing his tests coming negative another political person got infected. Yes, the preceding president of India, Mr.Pranab Mukherjee has tested positive for Covid-19.
Pranab Mukherjee is the former president, who took the oath in the year 2012 and performed his duties being the 13th president of India. He served till 2017 and was also a known leader of the congress party. He informed about him being positive on his official twitter handle. Mr. Pranab stated that he visited a hospital for some different course of treatment but came to know that he has found COVID positive. He also advised all the people who had come in his contact earlier this week to get isolated and asked to make sure that they get tested for the virus.
Pranab Mukherjee has also served as the Union Finance Minister before becoming the president. His serving was from 2009 to 2012. To brief, he got his first break in politics through the First Woman Prime Minister i.e; Indira Gandhi who was serving on the said post at that time. She got him elected to the upper parliament house, Rajya Sabha.
He was also accused of the emergency imposed on the Indian citizens way back in the year 1975. He also founded his individual part under Rashtriya Samajwadi Congress but that didn’t help him sticking his foot in politics. After completing his term period of presidency in 2017 he did not elect himself for the renewal of new sessions. He retired afterward to which Ramnath Kovind, former president of Bihar, succeeded him.
After this upsetting news of him being positive for the virus, people across India have gotten a little tensed. Although the Covid-19 virus has a good recovery rate, it could be fatal for some people considering their age or any disease they have been previously suffering from. Many famous politicians along with the people have wished him a speedy recovery. We hope he gets well soon and informs about his health on the same social media platform where he informed about his bad health before. Stay tuned in this for more latest updates.
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