A ‘TROUBLESHOOTER’S’ JOURNEY THROUGH TIME An essay in pictures As Pranab Mukherjee demits office as Finance Minister to file his nomination for the Presidential election, Business Standard looks back at his chequered political career
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1. Finance Minister Pranab 2 Mukherjee giving final touches to the General Budget for 1982-83, before presenting it to Parliament, in New Delhi on February 27, 1982
2. Pranab Mukherjee (sitting, right) with the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi (second from right), in an undated photo 7
3. President Shankar Dayal Sharma (left) administering the oath of office of Union Cabinet minister to Pranab Mukherjee, in New Delhi on August 31, 1993
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4. Pranab Mukherjee with then on April 7, 1982. To his right is Bangladesh, when the latter Tripura, in New Delhi on Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi Raja Chelliah, founding called on him, in New Delhi on November 9, 1992 (left) in an undated picture director, National Institute of October 7, 1982 Public Finance and Policy 8. Pranab Mukherjee with 5. Finance Minister Pranab 7. Deputy Chairman of the visiting Palestine Liberation Mukherjee inaugurating the 6. Finance Minister Pranab Planning Commission Pranab Organisation leader Yasser new building complex of the Mukherjee with Lieutenant Mukherjee (left) holding Arafat (right) in 1997. Also seen National Institute of Public General Hussain Muhammad discussions over finalisation of in the picture is Congress 8 Finance & Policy, in New Delhi Ershad (left), President of the Annual Plan for 1993-94 for leader Sitaram Kesri (centre)
"Today I stand ready to embark upon a new journey," says Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on his last day in office